Francis Vielé-Griffin

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 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.

• Name — Francis Vielé-Griffin • Born — 26 May 1864 • Birthplace — Norfolk, Virginia, US • Died — 12 November 1937 • Place of death — Bergerac, Dordogne, France • Occupation — Poet • Genre — Symbolist

His work includes: • Cueille d'avril (1885) (In English translation: Cull of April, Sunny Lou Publishing, 2021; April Harvest in April Harvest, Swans, and Joys by Sunny Lou Publishing, 2026) • Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892) (Swans, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing, 2022; April Harvest, Swans, and Joys by Sunny Lou Publishing, 2026) • Ancaeus (1885–87), a dramatic poem • Joies (1889) (Joys, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing, 2022; April Harvest, Swans, and Joys by Sunny Lou Publishing, 2026) • 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, 2023) • La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893) (The Ride of Yeldis & Other Poems, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing, 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)

From “Euphonies” in April Harvest: • I ramble on return from vain lassitudes, • Have we not dreamt of other beatitudes? From "Dea" in April Harvest: • The rhythm of her voice is my only metric, • And her alternating pace, my nuanced rhyme; • My idea is what I read in her thought, • Of course, and I have never dreamt of another America • Than to kiss the auburn-gold of her lowered head.

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