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 March 27, 1797, the son of Léon, Comte de...

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 their confidence as they set out to define the ideals of...

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 theater was profound, despite the fact that his...

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 spiritual leader in "La Maison du Berger."

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 “drama of ideas” on subsequent literature.

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