Francis Vielé-Griffin
{{short description|French symbolist poet}}
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| birth_place= Norfolk, Virginia, US
| death_date= {{death date and age|df=yes|1937|11|12|1864|5|26}}
| death_place= Bergerac
| occupation= Poet
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Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, 26 May 1864{{snd}}12 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.World Authors 1900–1950, edited by Martin Seymour-Smith and Andrew C. Kimmens, volume 4 (of 4), H. W. Wilson Company, 1996, p. 2755
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).{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=50}}
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:
:{{lang|fr|Ne croyez pas}}
:{{lang|fr|Pour ce qu'avril rit rose}}
:{{lang|fr|Dans les vergers}}
:{{lang|fr|Ou palit de l'exces voluptueux des fleurs}}
:{{lang|fr|Que toutes choses}}
:{{lang|fr|Sont selon nos gais coeurs}}
:{{lang|fr|Et qu'il n'est plus une soif a etancher.}}
Works
His work includes:{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=50}}
- 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) (Swans, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: {{ISBN|978-1-95539-230-3}}, 2022)
- Ancaeus (1885–87), a dramatic poem
- Joies (1889) (Joys, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: {{ISBN|978-1-95539-221-1}}, 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: {{ISBN|978-1-95539-239-6}}, 2023)
- La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893) (The Ride of Yeldis & Other Poems, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: {{ISBN|978-1-95539-239-6}}, 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:{{cite book |last1=Vielé-Griffin |first1=Francis |translator=Richard Robinson |title=Cull of April |date=2021 |publisher=Sunny Lou Publishing}}
:{{lang|fr|I ramble on return from vain lassitudes,}}
:{{lang|fr|Have we not dreamt of other beatitudes?}}
:{{lang|fr|The rhythm of her voice is my only metric,}}
:{{lang|fr|And her alternating pace my nuanced rhyme,}}
:{{lang|fr|My idea is what I read in her thoughts,}}
:{{lang|fr|Of course, and Iʼve never dreamt of other America}}
:{{lang|fr|Than to kiss the fiery gold of her lowered head.}}
References
{{Reflist}}
;Attribution
- {{EB1911|wstitle=Viélé-Griffin, Francis|volume=28 |page=50}}\
External links
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- [http://www.blackcatpoems.com/v/francis_viele_griffin.html Poems by Francis Vielé-Griffin]
- [http://www.uni-duisburg-essen.de/lyriktheorie/texte/1907_viele.html Une conquête morale] (1907)
- Francis Vielé-Griffin on French Wiki
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Francis Vielé-Griffin}}
- {{Librivox author |id=1448}}
- Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris
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