Alphonse de Lamartine

Harmonies Poetiques et Religieuses

Poetry celebrating divine harmony, nature, and religious mysticism

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Alphonse de Lamartine
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.

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