Alfred de Vigny

Alfred de Vigny was a French poet and early leader of French Romanticism. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare.

As an army officer with conservative and royalist views, Vigny differed sharply from most other French Romantics.

Date of birth:
27th March, 1797
Date of death:
17th September, 1863
"Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty."
― Alfred de Vigny
Topic(s): Art
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."
― Alfred de Vigny
Topic(s): Poetry

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