Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle

Charles Marie Leconte de Lisle , 1818-94, French poet. His first two books of poetry, Poèmes antiques (1852) and Poèmes et poésies (1855), were immediately successful. It was, however, Poésies barbares (1862; later enlarged as Poèmes barbares, 1872) that established him as the leading figure of the group later to be known as the Parnassians . Anti-Christian and a pessimist, Leconte de Lisle saw death as the only existing reality and drew his inspiration from antiquity. Later works include Les Erinnyes (1872), a verse drama; and Poèmes tragiques (1884). He was elected to the French Academy.

Leconte de Lisle, Charles Marie René (1818–94) French poet. He was the leader of the anti-romantic Parnassian school, and his work, which he collected as Poèmes antiques (1852), Poèmes barbares (1862) and Poèmes tragiques, is disciplined and pessimistic. He was elected to the Académie Française in 1866.