Francis Vielé-Griffin


Francis Vielé-Griffin, was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA and was the son of Egbert Ludovicus Viele.
Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine. He was a writer of vers libre and founded the highly influential journal Entretiens politiques et littéraires.
His name will remain attached to the history of symbolism and vers-librism. His first collection, Cueille d'avril, appeared in 1885. He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes, the prohibition to rhyme a plural with a singular, replaces the rhyme with an assonance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or assonancer:

Works

His volumes include:
"Plus loin"
"Voix d'Ionie"
"La Rose au flat"
"Le Livre des reines"