French poetry
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French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.
Nineteenth century
- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) is generally recognised as the greatest figure in French Romanticism in the 19th century.
- Alphonse de Lamartine
- Alfred de Vigny
- Alfred de Musset
- Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855)
- Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
- Leconte de Lisle
- Théodore de Banville
- Catulle Mendès
- Sully-Prudhomme
- François Coppée
- José María de Heredia
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) With Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine, the founder of the Decadents. He also founded the journal Le Salut Public, translated Edgar Allan Poe, and was prosecuted along with the publisher and printer for blasphemy associated with Les Fleurs du mal. He held salons to encourage such painters as Delacroix. Among other poetic forms, he used the pantoum.
- Theodore Aubanel (1829-1882) Born into a publishing family (the museum for the publishing house still exists), he is the author of three collections of poetry written in the troubadour tradition, as well as three plays.
- Frederic Mistral (1830-1914) Provençal language poet and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1904. He created the Félibrige movement on May 21, 1854, with Théodore Aubanel, Jean Brunet, Anselme Mathieu, Paul Piera, his teacher Joseph Roumanille, and Alphonse Tavan. He was noted for his promotion of Provençal literature and founded the annual journal Armana Prouvençau. Also founder of a museum of ethnography in Arles.
- Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) The originator of the Symbolist movement in France. His Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard was one of the first to use typography in poetry to create different trains of thought existing simultaneously.
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) Regarded in his day as the premier poet in France, he published, in addition to his poems, Les poètes maudits, biographies of poets. See Poète maudit.
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was one of the precursors of the Surrealist movement. He wrote many remarkable works, among The Sonnet of the Vowels in which each vowel is assigned a colour.
- Jules Laforgue
- Jean Moréas
- Gustave Kahn
- Albert Samain
- Tristan Corbière
- Henri de Régnier
- René Ghil
- Saint-Pol Roux
- Oscar-Vladislas de Milosz
- Albert Giraud
- Emile Verhaeren
- Georges Rodenbach
- Tristan Klingsor (1874-1966)
- Maurice Maeterlinck
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