Francis Vielé-Griffin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Vielé-Griffin

French symbolist poet

Date of Birth: 26-May-1864

Place of Birth: Norfolk, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1937

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Francis Vielé-Griffin (May 26, 1864 – November 12, 1937), 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 (1890–92). 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: Ne croyez pas Pour ce qu'avril rit rose Dans les vergers Ou palit de l'exces voluptueux des fleurs Que toutes choses Sont selon nos gais coeurs Et qu'il n'est plus une soif a etancher.



Alternative names	Menelas Simonide, Mihail Simonidi, Michel Simonidy
Description	Romanian painter
Date of birth/death	1870	1933
Location of birth/death	Bucharest, Romania	Paris
Work location	Romania
Authority control	: Q3310869 VIAF: 2737415 ISNI: 0000 0000 6656 2293 ULAN: 500094294 GND: 131798545 BNF: 148367332