Francis Vielé-Griffin

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Template:French literature sidebar Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, 26 May 1864Template:Snd12 November 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, the son of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and moved to France with his mother (the former Teresa Griffin) in 1872.<ref>World Authors 1900–1950, edited by Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens, volume 4 (of 4), H. W. Wilson Company, 1996, p. 2755</ref>

Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine. He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires (1890–92).Template:Sfn He wrote symbolist and vers-libre poetry. His first collection, Cueille d'avril, appeared in 1885. He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes, the prohibition to rhyme a plural with a singular, replaces the rhyme with an assonance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or assonancer:

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Works

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• Cueille d'avril (1885) (Cull of April, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: Template:ISBN, 2021)
• Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892) (Swans, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: Template:ISBN, 2022)
• Ancaeus (1885–87), a dramatic poem
• Joies (1889) (Joys, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: Template:ISBN, 2022)
• Fleurs du Chemin et Chansons de la Route (1893) ("Flowers of the Path" and "Songs of the Journey" included in The Ride of Yeldis & Other Poems, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: Template:ISBN, 2023)
• La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893) (The Ride of Yeldis & Other Poems, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: Template:ISBN, 2023)
• Swanhilde, a dramatic poem (1894)
• Laus Veneris (1895), a volume of translations from Swinburne
• Poèmes et Poésies (1895), a collection containing much of his earlier work
• Phocas le jardinier (1898)
• La Légende ailee de Wieland le Forgeron (1899), a dramatic poem.
• L'Amour sacré (1903), poems
• Plus loin (1906)
• Voix d'Ionie (1914)
• La Rose au flat (1922)
• Le Livre des reines (1929)

Quotes

From “Euphonies” in Cull of April:<ref name="cull-of-april">Template:Cite book</ref>

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References

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External links

• Poems by Francis Vielé-Griffin
• Une conquête morale (1907)
• Francis Vielé-Griffin on French Wiki
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• Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris

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