Vincent Voiture: Quick Facts

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Born	February 24, 1597 • Amiens • France
Died	May 26, 1648 (aged 51) • Paris • France

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Edme Boursault

French author

French dramatist Jean Racine

Jean Racine

French dramatist

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

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Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

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Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Jean de La Fontaine, oil painting by François De Troy; in the Bibliothèque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva

Jean de La Fontaine

French poet

Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Paul Valéry.

Paul Valéry

French critic and poet

François Mauriac

François Mauriac

French author

Romains

Jules Romains

French author

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Charles Maurras

French writer and political theorist

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Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle

French poet

Nicolas Boileau.

Nicolas Boileau

French author

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

Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset

French author

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Marguerite Yourcenar

French author

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Alfred de Musset

French author

Perrault, Charles

Charles Perrault

French author

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Népomucène Lemercier

French author

Henri de Régnier

Henri de Régnier

French poet

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

A Study of Poetry

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