Pierre Corneille: Quick Facts

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Born	June 6, 1606 • Rouen • France
Died	October 1, 1684 (aged 78) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Andromède” • “Attila” • “Cinna” • “Don Sanche d’Aragon” • “Horace” • “La Comédie des Tuileries” • “Le Cid” • “Mélite” • “Nicomède” • “Polyeucte” • “Sertorius” • “Suréna” • “The Liar” • “Tite et Bérénice”
Movement / Style	les cinq auteurs

French dramatist Jean Racine

Jean Racine

French dramatist

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Népomucène Lemercier

French author

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Jean de La Taille

French author

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Jacques Grévin

French author

Life-sized plaster sculpture Seated Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon shows Voltaire draped in a robe, seated with a thoughtful expression and a ribbon crown, against a dark background.

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Marivaux, Pierre

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Romains

Jules Romains

French author

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Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin

French author

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Étienne Jodelle

French author

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Marc-Antoine de Muret

French author

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Théophile de Viau

French author

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Gresset, oil painting by Louis Tocqué; in the Château de Versailles

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

French author

Labiche

Eugène-Marin Labiche

French dramatist

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Alfred de Musset

French author

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Ludovic Halévy

French author

Ducis, portrait by François Gérard

Jean-François Ducis

French dramatist

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry