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Leconte de Lisle

American  
[luh-kawnt duh leel] / lə kɔ̃t də ˈlil /

noun

  1. Charles Marie 1818–94, French poet.


Leconte de Lisle British  
/ ləkɔ̃t də lil /

noun

  1. Charles Marie René (ʃarl mari rəne). 1818–94, French Parnassian poet

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Duparc chose his poets with care; here, Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, and Jean Lahor.

From The Guardian Aug. 29, 2012

At first I thought him cold, infected with the rhetorical ice of the Leconte de Lisle.

From Confessions of a Young Man by Moore, George (George Augustus)

Leconte de Lisle is unsparing with the results of his erudition, and this probably confirms the popular notion of his remoteness.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Henri Murger, Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Paul Verlaine, are here, and now Sainte-Beuve has come back to his favorite haunt. 

From The Ways of Men by Gregory, Eliot

The person of Leconte de Lisle is described to us as characteristic of his work.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

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