Leconte de Lisle

American  

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

noun

1. Charles Marie 1818–94, French poet.

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Leconte de Lisle British  

/ ləkɔ̃t də lil /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Much of the music drew on other interests of the period, not found in the exhibit’s paintings, such as the encoded exoticism of poets Robert de Montesquiou and Leconte de Lisle, and the fetishism of the poetry and musical style of the Renaissance in the work of Hahn, for example.

From Washington Post

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

From The Guardian

If one may suggest a fault, it is that each picture is sometimes too much of a picture only, and that the poetical line, like that of M. de Heredia’s master, Leconte de Lisle himself, is occasionally overcrowded.

From Project Gutenberg

In the later ’sixties, with Fran�ois Copp�e, Sully-Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine and others less distinguished, he made one of the band of poets who gathered round Leconte de Lisle, and received the name of Parnassiens.

From Project Gutenberg

The gesture counts alone with these youthful "Fumistes"—as Leconte de Lisle had christened their predecessors.

From Project Gutenberg