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Jules Laforgue , 1860-87, French symbolist poet. He was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. The revolutionary form of Les Complaintes (1885) and Derniers Vers (1890) influenced later French poets as well as such foreign poets as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.

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Laforgue, Jules (1860–87), French poet, and a leading exponent of vers libre: he is notable in a foreign context as an important influence on T. S. Eliot and Pound.

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