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MOREAS, JEAN (1856-1910)

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MOREAS, See also:JEAN (1856-1910) , See also:French poet, See also:born at See also:Athens on the 15th of See also:April 1856, was the See also:grandson of Papadiomontopoulos, one of the heroes of See also:Missolonghi. He was one of the leaders of the symbolist See also:movement in French See also:poetry, advocating a relaxation of the stringent rules governing French See also:verse; but his See also:early volumes of poems, See also:Les Syrles (1884), Les Cantile nes (1886), and Le Pelerin passionne (1891) won recognition beyond the limits of this school. In the XIX° siecle (See also:August rr,1885) he formulated the principles of the symbolists, defending them from the appellation of " decadent," and in the See also:literary supplement of the See also:Figaro (Sep 18, 1886) he published a manifesto justifying the innovations of the new school as the natural development of the See also:prosody of See also:Baudelaire, See also:Mallarme and See also:Verlaine. Le Merin passionne was sympathetically reviewed by Anatole See also:France. As See also:time went on he repudiated the See also:licence claimed by the symbolists, and became the See also:leader of an offshoot from the See also:main See also:body known as the'etole romane, the See also:chief members of which are See also:Raymond de la Tailhede, See also:Maurice du Plessys, Ernest Raynaud, and the critic See also:Charles Maurras. Moreas and his new followers returned to the traditional severity of French versification, and to the classical and See also:antique tradition. His later volumes are Poesies, 2886—1896 (1898), and Stances (6 vols., See also:complete ed. 1905), Histoire de Jean de See also:Paris, foi de France (1902), Voyage en Grice en 1897 (1902), Conies de la vieille France (1903), and a classic See also:drama in verse, Iphigenie d See also:Aulis (1904), in See also:close See also:imitation of See also:Euripides, which was represented on the 24th of August 1903 in the See also:ancient See also:theatre of See also:Orange, and subsequently at the Odeon in Paris. He died on the 31st of See also:March 1910. See Anatole France, La See also:Vie litteraire (4th See also:ser., 1892) ; A. See also:van Bever and P. Leautaud, Poeles d'aujourd'hui, 1880—19oo (11th ed., 1905); P. See also:Berthelot, See also:art.

" Symbolisme " in La Grande encyclopidie; and J. de Gourmont, Jean Moreas, biographie critique (1905).

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