Alphonse de Lamartine
French Romantic poet whose Meditations Poetiques made him the first major French Romantic poet and launched a vogue for lyrical, elegiac verse. The Lake (Le Lac) is his most celebrated poem.
Works
- Meditations PoetiquesLyric poetry expressing religious feeling and intimate spiritual contemplation
- Harmonies Poetiques et ReligieusesPoetry celebrating divine harmony, nature, and religious mysticism
- JocelynEpic poem narrating a young priest's spiritual and romantic journey
- La Chute d'un AngeEpic narrative exploring human fall and celestial restoration