Francis Vielé-Griffin

Francis Vielé-Griffin (pseudonym of Egbert Ludovicus Viélé, 26 May 186412 November 1937), was a French symbolist poet. He was born at Norfolk, Virginia, USA, the son of General Egbert Ludovicus Viele, and moved to France with his mother (the former Teresa Griffin) in 1872.

Vielé-Griffin was educated in France and divided his time between Paris and Touraine. He was a writer of ''vers libre'' and founded the highly influential journal ''Entretiens politiques et littéraires'' (1890–92). He wrote symbolist and vers-libre poetry. His first collection, ''Cueille d'avril'', appeared in 1885. He practiced a relaxed prosody, which did not take into account the obligatory alternation of masculine and feminine rhymes, the prohibition to rhyme a plural with a singular, replaces the rhyme with an assonance, if not neglected here and there the rhyme or assonancer: : : : : : : : Provided by Wikipedia