← Alphonse de LamartineJocelynby Alphonse de LamartineEpic poem narrating a young priest's spiritual and romantic journeyFind on Amazon↗About the authorAlphonse de LamartineFrench 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.More by Alphonse de LamartineMeditations PoetiquesLyric poetry expressing religious feeling and intimate spiritual contemplation→Harmonies Poetiques et ReligieusesPoetry celebrating divine harmony, nature, and religious mysticism→La Chute d'un AngeEpic narrative exploring human fall and celestial restoration→
