Robert Vivier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Vivier

Belgian poet and writer

Date of Birth: 16-May-1894

Place of Birth: Liège, Wallonia, Belgium

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1989

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, romanist, philologist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Robert Vivier (1894&Chenee, Belgium;1989) was a French-speaking Belgian poet and writer.
He published his first collection, Le Menetrier, in 1924.
He then gave: Dechirures (1927), Au bord du temps (1937), Le Miracle enferme (1939), Trace par l'oubli (1951), Chronos reve (1959).
His anxious listening to everyday life, his nostalgia for the childhood of the world, his meditations on the "glory of life" and the "very sweet eternity that breathes the world" are expressed in free verses or very classical verses (sometimes sonnets).
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He was a professor at the University of Liege. He has been member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium from 1950 to 1989. Among many other book, he wrote a biography of Louis Antoine, the founder of Antoinism. Jean Rousselot.
Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris