biography
pronunciation:
[lafaw(r)g]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1850–87)
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| biography:
| French poet, born in Montevideo, Uruguay. Born into a family which hoped to make its fortune by going into exile, he was sent to live with cousins in Tarbes, then rejoined his family in Paris. He published poems in reviews with the encouragement of the Hydropathes, then became reader for the Empress Augusta, widow of William I, in Berlin (1881–6). His poetry includes Les Complaintes (1885), L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la lune, and Le Concile féerique (both 1886). He married an Englishwoman, Leah Lee, in London in 1886, and then returned to Paris, where, poverty-stricken, he died of tuberculosis the following year. His work is characterized by sensitivity and symbolist fantasy, use of free verse, and a melancholy atmosphere, and was edited posthumously in 1890 as Derniers Vers and Moralités légendaires (tales in prose). |
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