← Alphonse de LamartineLa Chute d'un Angeby Alphonse de LamartineEpic narrative exploring human fall and celestial restorationFind 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→JocelynEpic poem narrating a young priest's spiritual and romantic journey→
