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.
