Alfred de Vigny

Alfred Victor, count de Vigny is a writer, Dramaturge and Poète French born the March 27th 1797 with Loches, Indre-et-Loire, and died in Paris the September 17th 1863.

Biography

Second lieutenant in the red gendarmes (1814), it entered, in 1815, in the royal guard with foot, was named Capitaine in 1823, and was sent on the border at the time of the forwarding of Spain; it gave its resignation in 1828. Two years before, he had married English, Miss Lydia Bunbury. He went to Paris and one of was accustomed of the romantic Coterie. He had started to write worms as of 1815. Its first collection of worms appeared in 1822 (Poems); in 1826, it gave of it a new edition (ancient and modern Poèmes), increased few pieces, among which Moïse, Eloa, the Flood, and the Horn . In 1837, it added: Snow, Madam de Soubise, the Frigate Serious the , Paris, Lovers of Montmorency . Works in prose of Vigny are: Five-March (1826), historical novel where its idealism induces it with " perfectionner" the events, which it grants with a preconceived system; two volumes of accounts, Stello (1832) and (1835); dramas or comedies inter alia an adaptation in worms of the More of Venice (1829), the Marshal's wife of Ancre (1831), and especially Adhesive tape (1835), which had an immense success. Marie Dorval, who played in this part the part of Kitty Bell, inspired with the author a very sharp passion. He was elected with the French Academy in 1845 and was accepted there, of rather bad grace besides, by Molé. Its last years occurred in insulation. The September 17th 1863, it died in Paris of the continuations of a Cancer, after one year of physical sufferings, courageously supported. It was buried with the Cimetière of Montmartre. The second volume of worms, the Destinies , whose principal parts had been published by the Revue of the two worlds , appeared only after its death, in 1864. Still let us quote of him the Journal of a poet , posthumous collection of biographical notes, reflections and outlines published by Louis Ratisbon in 1867.

Its work

No one other, among the romantic ones, is also personal only Vigny: in the majority of its poems, it expresses a " me " haughty and jealous. However, it is seldom put in scene: It is sometimes Moïse, sometimes Samson, sometimes Jesus even ( cf the Mount of Olives ), and its more beautiful pieces are presented almost very in the form of symbols; to the expression of its feelings, it gives, by detaching them so to speak of general interest its personality, a value and. Loneliness, to which condemn the genius, the indifference of the men, the treason of the woman ( cf her relation with Marie Dorval ), the impassibility of the Nature and the silence of the Divinité in the presence of our evils, stoical resignation that it is advisable to oppose to them, such are the governing ideas of this philosophical poet. It is often said hard artist and, the verbal invention it would miss sorrow, and veins it, and the breath. It did not make, moreover, in all, that forty pieces which one could say that many obscure, is twisted. Ten or twelve only would deserve to survive, like Moïse, the Bottle with the sea, the Death of the wolf, the House of the shepherd, the Mount of Olives, the Anger of Samson, etc But these are worth what French poetry produced of more beautiful.

Works

the Ball (1820)
Poems (1822)
Éloa, or the sister of the angels (1824)
ancient and modern Poèmes (1826)
Five-March (1826)
the marshal's wife of Ancre (1831)
Stello (1832)
Leaves for the fear (1833)
Servitude and size soldiers (1835)
Chatterton (1835)
the Destinies (1864)
Journal of a poet (1867)
complete Works (1883-1885)
Daphne (1912)

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