See also: Griffin

Francis Hurdy-gurdy-Griffin (April 26th 1864 - December 11th 1937) is a poet Symbolist French, born with the the United States with Norfolk (Virginia), installed in Touraine. With Paul Adam and Bernard Lazare, it was one of the theorists of the free Verse, of which it was itself an enthusiastic practitioner.

It was intimate of Mallarmé, with which it maintained the quasi subsidiary relations, friend and school-fellow of Henri de Régnier with the Collège Stanislas of Paris, friend of Emile Verhaeren, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Francis James and the painter Théo Van Rysselberghe who made, like André Gide, Albert Mockel and others, many stays in its properties.

Francis Hurdy-gurdy-Griffin was director of the review the political and literary Talks , president of the Mallarmé Academy, member of the royal Académie of language and literature Frenchwomen of Belgium and commander of the Légion of honor.

Works

• Picking of April, 1886.
• Swans: poetries, 1885-86 , 1887.
• Joys: poems, 1888-1889 , 1889.
• Diptych , 1891.
• Swans: new poems 1890-91 , 1892.
• the Ride of Yeldis and other poems , 1892.
• Swanhilde: dramatic poem, 1890-1893 , 1894.
• the Clearness of life: Songs in the shade; With the liking of the hour; ″ In memoriam ″; In Arcadie , 1897.
• Phocas the gardener, preceded by Swanhilde, Ancaeus, Engagement of Euphrosine , 1898.
• Partenza , 1899.
• the winged Legend of Wieland the blacksmith , 1900.
• crowned Love, poems , 1903.
• the light of Greece: Pindare; Sapho; the winged Legend of Bellérophon Hippalide , 1912.
• Voice of Ionie: is delirious of Tantalum; Pasiphaé; Galatée; weddings of Atalante; the Wisdom of Ulysses; preceded by some poems , 1914.
• Crown offered to the MUSE Roman , 1922.
• the Pink with the flood, captions of Poitou , 1922.
• the royal Field, lyric speeches , 1923.
• Choix of poems , 1923.
• the Book of the queens , 1929.
• Souvenirs of childhood and the first youth , 1939.