Francis Vielé-Griffin
French poet
Died when: 73 years 170 days (881 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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 (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 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.
