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Theodore de Banville , Poet French, born the March 14th 1823 with Mills, in the To combine, dead the March 13rd 1891, with Paris, its residence street of the Spur. Wire of Claude Theodore Faullain de Banville (1785-1846), lieutenant, and Zélie Huet (1799-1876). He was a French poet, and one of the leaders of the school parnassienne . Banville professed an exclusive love of the beauty and was opposed at the same time to realistic poetry and the épanchements Romantiques, face to which he affirmed his faith in the formal purity of the poetic act.

Life

Theodore de Banville made his studies with the Lycée Condorcet. Encouraged by Victor Hugo and Théophile Gautier, it was devoted to poetry, and attended the literary circles among most anticonformist. He scorned poetry official and commercial, was the solved adversary of the new realistic poetry and the enemy of the drift larmoyante of the romanticism.

He also collaborated like dramatic critic and literary chronicler in the newspapers the Capacity (1850), then the National (1869) and became a very important figure of the literary world, becoming member of the whimsical Revue (1861), where the poets find themselves who were at the origin of the Parnassus and all the movements of the century.

In 1866 he marries Marie-Elisabeth Rochegrosse, and organizes the first representation of Gringoire . He publishes Exiled the in 1867, collection which he dedicates to his wife and which he regarded as the best of his work.

He was one of the most influential authors of the world of the letters, author of theater, poet of the second romantic and critical generation literary, and was admired and often imitated by a whole generation of young poets of second half of the 19th century.

Its collective review, the contemporary Parnassus , initiated Arthur Rimbaud, with the poetry of its time. May 24th 1870, this one, then 16 years old, sent to Theodore de Banville a mail to which he united several poems (Ophélie, Sensation, Sun and flesh), so obtaining its support from the editor Alphonse Lemerre .

In November 1871, Theodore de Banville placed at his place Arthur Rimbaud, but as of May, the latter in its letters known as “ of the indicator ” expresses its difference, and in August 1871, in its parodic poem, “ what one says to the poet in connection with flowers ”, expresses an open criticism of poetic of Banville.

In 1872, with its Small Treaty of French poetry , Banville breaks with the current Symbolist. It publishes almost a work per annum throughout the years 1880, and dies in Paris on March 13rd, 1891, shortly after the publication of sound only Romance, Marcelle Rabe .

Theodore de Banville worked particularly, in its work, the questions of poetic form, and played with all the richnesses of French poetry. It was reproached to him for having missed sensitivity and of imagination, but its salutary influence, made it possible many poets to emerge from the sentimentality mièvre which survived the true romanticism. It was also occupied with Asselineau of the 3rd edition of the Fleurs of the evil of Baudelaire.

It is buried with the Cimetière of Montparnasse.

Works

1842, the Caryatids (poetry), greeted by Charles Baudelaire.
1846, the Stalactites (poetry)
1857, Odelettes and Odes Funambulesques (poetries), bring the dedication to him and mark an evolution towards more flexibility and of charm.
1861 Sea of Nice - Letters to a friend in Chicken-Malassis
1866, Gringoire (play), historical comedy, dedicated to Victor Hugo, who had put in scene a young poet in Notre-Dame de Paris .
1866, 1871, 1876, participations in the contemporary Parnassus .
1867, Exiled the
1869, Western the
1872, Small Treaty of French poetry (poetry), from which it is diverted little by little poetry following a violent one dissension with symbolism.
1873, Thirty-six merry Ballades .
1874, Rondels made up with the manner of Charles of Orleans and the Princesses (sonnets)
1881, Tales for the Women .
1882, My memories
1884, heroic Tales .
1885, chimerical Letters and Socrates and its wife .
1887, Mrs Robert , tales
1888, the Kiss
1891, Marcelle Rabe

posthumous Works:

1892 In the furnace (poetries)
1917 Critical

Note: a public garden is dedicated to Theodore de Banville in the district of the wearing of Nice, vis-a-vis the sea. The poet takes care thus of the meal and the sleep of the walkers whom it accommodates.

" The cities have their written destiny and the fate of Nice east to reign without division among these girls of the Mediterranean which is vêtues transparent floods and to pose fleuris". Quotation of Theodore de Banville engraved in the stone in its public garden in Nice.

Quotations

“Theodore de Banville is not precisely materialist; he is luminous. Its poetry represents the happy hours. ” Baudelaire, Fused, 9.

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