The French poet Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894), a leader of the group of poets called the Parnassians, was famed for the sonorous and brilliantly visual qualities of his poetry...
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Few poets have had a more divided critical reception than Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle. To his admirers he was original, modern, and rich; to his detractors he was cold and calculated, p...
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