Francis Vielé-Griffin

Francis MANY Griffin ( born May 26, 1864 in Norfolk, Virginia; † December 11, 1937 in France) was a French writer of U.S. origin.

Life

Many - Griffin was the son of the engineer Egbert Ludovicus Many (1825-1902) and his wife Teresa Griffin. After the divorce of his parents many - Griffin went with his mother to France and settled in Paris ( Montparnasse) down. He attended the Collège Stanislas; inter alia, together with Henri de Regnier.

Many - Griffin held alternately on in and around Tours ( Indre- et- Loire) and in Paris. In his work he used preferred the "free verse ".

Along with Gustave Kahn and Jules Laforgue founded many - Griffin 1890, the journal " Questions and Answers Politiques et Littéraires " and was an operative head. After two years, the show was set. This magazine is one of the most important journals of symbolism; in their published inter alia André Gide, Francis Jammes, Théo van Rysselberghe, Paul Valery and Émile Verhaeren.

Many - Griffin headed for some time, the Académie Mallarmé.

Honors

  • Commander of the Legion of Honor
  • Member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature française de Belgique

Works (selection)

As author

  • Cueille d' avril. In 1885.
  • Les cygnes. In 1892.
  • Swanhilde. 1894
  • Oeuvre. Slatkine, Geneva 1977 ( Nachdr d ed Paris 1930).
  • Poèmes et Poésies. In 1895.
  • Choix de poèmes. In 1923.

As editor

  • Questions and Answers politiques et littéraires. Paris 1890/92.

As a translator

  • Algernon Swinburne: Laus Veneris. In 1895.
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