Leconte de Lisle
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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 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
It was perhaps in the course of these walks with �schylus that Leconte de Lisle formed the habit of spelling Clytemnestre "Klytaimnestra."
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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 Massenet, Jules
What Leconte de Lisle has to tell us about mysterious Oriental sages and mythical Scandinavian heroes may be unfamiliar to the reader, but is never rendered obscure by his mode of narration.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
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