Leconte de Lisle

Leconte de Lisle
portrait by Jacques-Léonard Blanquier, 1885
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In Leconte de Lisle the Parnassian movement seems to crystallize. His verse is clear, sonorous, dignified, deliberate in movement, classically correct in rhythm, full of exotic local color, of savage names, of realistic rhetoric.

(wiki)

Dès son premier recueil, sa vie durant et pour la postérité, Leconte de Lisle a eu son personnage, sa légende : impossibilité, morgue aristocratique, misanthropie; a chacun de ces reproches, sa vie, comme son œuvre, prête évidemment le flanc.

(Nouveaux Classiques Larousse)

[From his first book, during his life, and then for posterity, Leconte de Lisle had his character, his legend: inability, aristocratic morgue, misanthropy; and for each of these criticisms, his life, his work, are of course open]

• A Portrait of Leconte de Lisle by Jean-François Millet
• Paysage Polaire
• Aux Modernes 
• Le Dernier Dieu
• Le Cœur de Hialmar 
• Les Montreurs  

(Le Parnasse des Lettres)