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Leconte de Lisle
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (; 22 October 1818 – 17 July 1894) was a French poet of the Parnassian movement. He is traditionally known by his surname only, Leconte de Lisle".
Biography.
Leconte de Lisle was born on the French overseas island of La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean. He spent his childhood there and later in Brittany. Among his friends in those years was the musician Charles Bénézit. His father, an army surgeon, who brought him up with great
for art's sake, far from the important and sentimental ambitions that the Romanticism defended. Those in favor tried to create "beautiful objects", approaching exotic subjects and ornamenting them with a musical language, but which are cold. The father of this school was Leconte de Lisle.
- The Symbolism, however, has a transcendental ambition. The main figure of the movement is Charles Baudelaire. For the author of "The flowers of evil", all the universe, spiritual, and terrestrial, forms a harmonious,