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Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny (born March 27, 1797, Loches, Fr.—died Sept. 17, 1863, Paris) was a poet, dramatist, and novelist who was the most philosophical of the French Romantic writers.
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny - French Poet, Novelist, Dramatist: Vigny’s literary art is uneven. He does not possess great technical facility, and when not profoundly inspired, he is prosaic; there are long passages in Les Destinées that are laborious and dull.
Alfred de Vigny was one of France's foremost Romantics Poets. His poetry expressed a stoic philosophy of pessimism, stressing the lonliness of one's struggle within a hostile world. Vigny was also a playwright and novelist.
Alfred de Vigny is known for his philosophical plays, short stories, and poems, which are recognized as an important part of the French Romantic movement of the nineteenth century. In particular, his drama Chatterton contributed significantly to the development of the Romantic movement in French literature.
French Romantic poet, dramatist, and novelist. After an undistinguished ten‐year military career, he established himself as a poet and a novelist in 1826, publishing his Poèmes antiques et modernes ... From: Vigny, Alfred de in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ».
Alfred Victor de Vigny (1797-1863) was born in Loches (a town to which he never returned) into an aristocratic family. His father was an aged veteran of the Seven Years' War who died before Vigny's 20th birthday; his mother, twenty years younger, was a strong-willed woman who was inspired by Rousseau and took responsibility herself for Vigny's ...
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny, (born March 27, 1797, Loches, France—died Sept. 17, 1863, Paris), French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Vigny embarked on a military career but turned to writing Romantic poetry; his verse was critically and popularly acclaimed.
Alfred de Vigny was a profound reader of the Holy Scriptures, and the inspiration which he derived from the sacred writings may be traced in nearly all these poems.
Apart from the evidence of the poetry itself, nowhere is there more certain testimony that, as a literary artist, Alfred de Vigny considered himself, first and foremost, a poet than in the...
