biography
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Viélé-Griffin, Francis
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pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viele
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pronunciation:
[veeaylay grifĩ
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| lived:
| (1864–1937)
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| biography:
| French poet, born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. The son of a military governor for the Union in the American Civil War, he was sent at age eight to school in France, where he remained all his life, making his home in Touraine. His first collection of poems, Cueille d'avril (1886), was influenced by the Decadent movement, and a further two, Les Cygnes (1887) and Les Joies (1889) confirmed him as a prominent Symbolist. His work is optimistic and deals with spirituality, nature, and legends, and he pioneered the use of vers libre (‘free verse’), which he defended in essays published in the review Les Entretiens politiques et littéraires (‘Political and Literary Conversations’), which he co-founded in 1890. Further works include La Clarté de vie (1897), Phocas le jardinier (1898), and La Légende ailée de Wieland le forgeron (1900). |
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