Francis Vielé-Griffin

Francis Vielé-Griffin (May 26, 1864 – November 12, 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA and was the son of Egbert Ludovicus Viele.

Francis Vielé-Griffin
Born	26 May 1864 Norfolk, Virginia, US
Died	12 November 1937 (aged 73) Bergerac
Occupation	Poet
Genre	Symbolist

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).[1] His name will remain attached to the history of symbolism and vers-librism. 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:

Ne croyez pas

Pour ce qu'avril rit rose

Dans les vergers

Ou palit de l'exces voluptueux des fleurs

Que toutes choses

Sont selon nos gais coeurs

Et qu'il n'est plus une soif a etancher.

Works

His volumes include:[1]

• Cueille d'avril (1885)
• Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892)
• 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

1. Chisholm 1911, p. 50.

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Viélé-Griffin, Francis". Encyclopædia Britannica. 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