Leconte de Lisle
Americannoun
noun
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Duparc chose his poets with care; here, Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, and Jean Lahor.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 29, 2012
Leconte de Lisle cultivated the art of poetry with the most strenuous dignity and impersonality.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
As M. de Banville sought for poetical novelty in an elaborate manipulation of the formal part of poetry, so M. Leconte de Lisle has sought it in a wide range of subject.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
Leconte de Lisle was a fervent admirer of Wagner and of Alphonse Daudet, of whom I shall speak later, and had a soul most sensitive to music.
From My Recollections by Jules Massenet
At first I thought him cold, infected with the rhetorical ice of the Leconte de Lisle.
From Confessions of a Young Man by George (George Augustus) Moore
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