Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (1797-1863), was one of the finest poets of French romanticism. His lengthy journal reveals his sensitive and aristocratic nature.Alfred de Vigny was born at Loches on Ma...
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Alfred de Vigny, poet, novelist, and dramatist, was an influential figure in the Romantic movement, particularly as it developed in the late 1820s and 1830s. His influence on the direction of French t...
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A poet, writer, dramatist, and self-styled "moraliste épique," Alfred de Vigny was also a forerunner of sorts, the first to attempt in verse what François-René de Chateaubriand ha...
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Alfred de Vigny strikes many readers as the least effusive and most reserved of the French Romantic writers. Unlike such counterparts as Alphonse de Lamartine and Victor Hugo, who boldly asserted the...
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In the following anonymous essay, the critic reviews Vigny's career and works.
“Let no oration be pronounced over my tomb.” Such was the expressed wish of Alfred de Vigny only ...
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In the following essay, McGoldrick views the setting, rather than the action, of Vigny's “La Mort du loup” as the source of tension in the poem.
Vigny's poem “La ...
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In the following essay, Duncan details Vigny's mythologizing of his personal feelings of feminine betrayal in the poem “La Colère de Samson.”
The Biblical account of the...
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In the following essay, Nugent interprets Vigny's Stello as a romantic and existential revolt against rationalism.
Vigny's Stello is significant from three points of view: biographica...
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In the following essay, Cooper explores references to the body as they contribute to an economic analysis of Chatterton.
In the preface he composed during the night of 29-30 June 1834 for his just ...
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In the following essay, Evans studies Vigny's poem “La Maison du berger” in the context of psychoanalytic theories of self-consciousness and reflection.
That homely object the ...
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In the following excerpt, Buss considers Chatterton as a dramatic defense of the poet and his purpose in an otherwise materialist society, and continues by assessing the influence of this “dram...
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In the following excerpt, Ireson surveys Vigny's adaptation of the short, eighteenth-century heroic poem as a vehicle for the representation of modern values.
Vigny's development as a...
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In the following essay, McGoldrick describes the influence of the Old Testament on Vigny's poem “Le Mont des Oliviers” and, by implication, his other late poetry.
“Le Mo...
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In the following essay, Doolittle argues that 'La colère de Samson' belongs in the thematic progression of Les destinées as a representation of one stage of "the gra...
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In the following essay, Evans cites recent psychoanalytic theories about the self and examines the mirror imagery in "La Maison du berger" as metaphors of human consciousness.
That ho...
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In the following excerpt, Ireson examines the relationship between French Romantic poetry and Vigny 's experiments with poetic form.
Poetry appears to have enjoyed a favoured status in the N...
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In the following essay, McGoldrick shows how Vigny uses contrasting effects to construct the setting of "La Mort du Loup" so it contributes to the plot.
Vigny's poem "La...
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In the following essay, Duncan examines how Vigny combines elements of celestial mythology with psychological realism to add a "mythic dimension " to a story of romantic betrayal.
The...
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In the following excerpt, Kurz provides an overview of Vigny's poetic achievements.
… The passing of a century has strikingly increased his stature and has led to an ever-growing appr...
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In the following excerpt, Kushner surveys Vigny's poetic examination of historical progress and his search for "the collective destiny of mankind."
Historical Consciousness is ...
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In the following essay, Gullace examines the tension in Vigny 's aesthetic between poetry as a means for philosophical inquiry and poetry as an expression of emotion.
The development of esth...
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In the following essay, Ince argues that Vigny is, most essentially, a didactic poet whose chief fault is a tendency toward "overt moralizing. "
Vigny says his ambition is to write po...
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In the following essay, Bishop defends the coherence of Vigny 's portrait of Christ in Le Mont des Oliviers, arguing that Christ in the poem shares the religious doubts of Vigny and his contemp...
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In the following essay, Majewski describes the transformation of Vigny's conception of the poet in society: from the portrait of the poet as a scapegoat and a victim in Stello to the poet as sp...
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In the following essay, Haig analyzes the ambiguous imagery in Les Destinées of the relationship between humanity and the divine and concludes that the poem affirms Vigny's conviction &#...
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In the following excerpt, Porter examines Vigny's "visual sensitivity" and traces his use of gesture and posture to illustrate character in his symbolic poetry
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Vigny, Comte de
Alfred (Victor) de Vigny
Critical Essay by Temple Bar
