French symbolist poet

Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, May 26, 1864:– November 12, 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.

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).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 *onance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or *onancer:

Ne croyez pasPour ce qu'avril rit roseDans les vergersOu palit de l'exces voluptueux des fleursQue toutes chosesSont selon nos gais coeursEt qu'il n'est plus une soif a etancher.

Works

His volumes include:

• Cueille d'avril (1885) (Cull of April, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: ISBN:978-1-95539-218-1, 2021)
• Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892)
• Joies (1889) (Joys, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: ISBN:978-1-95539-221-1, 2022)
• La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893)
• 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)

References

Attribution

• :This article:incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain::Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Viélé-Griffin, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.:28 (11th:ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.:50.

External links

• Poems by Francis Vielé-Griffin
• Une conquête morale (1907)
• Francis Vielé-Griffin on French Wiki
• Works by or about Francis Vielé-Griffin at Internet Archive
• Works by Francis Vielé-Griffin at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris