Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, May 26, 1864November 12, 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, the son of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and moved to France with his mother (the former Teresa Griffin) in 1872. 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). He wrote symbolist and vers-libre poetry. 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 work includes: Cueille d'avril (1885) (Cull of April, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: , 2021) Les Cygnes (1887; new series, 1892) (Swans, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: , 2022) Ancaeus (1885-87), a dramatic poem Joies (1889) (Joys, in English translation by Sunny Lou Publishing: , 2022) Fleurs du Chemin et Chansons de la Route La Chevauchée d'Yeldis (1893) Swanhilde, a dramatic poem (1894) Laus Veneris (1895), a volume of translations from Swinburne Poèmes et Poésies (1895), a collection containing much of his earlier work Phocas le jardinier (1898) La Légende ailee de Wieland le Forgeron (1899), a dramatic poem. L'Amour sacré (1903), poems Plus loin (1906) Voix d'Ionie (1914) La Rose au flat (1922) Le Livre des reines (1929) Quotes From “Euphonies” in Cull of April: From "Dea" in Cull of April: References Attribution \ External links Poems by Francis Vielé-Griffin Une conquête morale (1907) Francis Vielé-Griffin on French Wiki Jean Rousselot. Dictionnaire de la poesie francaise contemporaine 1968, Auge, Guillon, Hollier -Larousse, Mooreau et Cie.-Librairie Larousse, Paris 1864 births 1937 deaths American expatriates in France American male poets French male poets American poets in French American writers in French American people of French descent Writers from Norfolk, Virginia Symbolist poets Poets from Virginia 19th-century American poets 19th-century French poets 20th-century American poets 20th-century French poets 19th-century American male writers 20th-century American male writers