Henri de Régnier
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Régnier in 1917
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Born | Honfleur, France |
28 December 1864
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Resting place | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
Occupation | Poet, novelist |
Language | French |
Nationality | French |
Literary movement | Symbolism |
Spouse | Marie de Régnier |
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Henri-François-Joseph de Régnier (28 December 1864 – 23 May 1936) was a French symbolist poet, considered one of the most important of France during the early 20th century.
Biography
He was born in Honfleur (Calvados) on 28 December 1864, and educated in Paris for law. In 1885 he began to contribute to the Parisian reviews, and his verses were published by most of the French and Belgian periodicals favorable to the symbolist writers. Having begun as a Parnassian, he retained the classical tradition, though he adopted some of the innovations of Jean Moréas and Gustave Kahn. His vaguely suggestive style shows the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom he was an assiduous disciple.
His first volume of poems, Lendemains, appeared in 1885, and among numerous later volumes are Poèmes anciens et romanesques (1890), Les Jeux rustiques et divins (1890), Les Médailles d'argile (1900), La Cité des eaux (1903). He is also the author of a series of realistic novels and tales, among which are La Canne de jaspe (2nd ed., 1897), La Double maîtresse (5th ed., 1900), Les Vacances d’un jeune homme sage (1903), and Les Amants singuliers (1905). Régnier married Marie de Heredia, daughter of the poet José María de Heredia, and herself a novelist and poet under the pen name of Gérard d'Houville.
La Canne de jaspe and Histoires Incertaines (1919) were translated in 2012 by Brian Stableford under the title A Surfeit of Mirrors.
Henri de Régnier died in 1936 at age 71 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Works
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- Lendemains (1885).
- Apaisement (1886).
- Sites (1887).
- Épisodes (1888).
- Poèmes anciens et romanesques, 1887-1889 (1890).
- Épisodes, Sites et Sonnets (1891).
- Tel qu'en songe (1892).
- Contes à soi-même (1894).
- Le Bosquet de Psyché (1894).
- Le Trèfle noir (1895).
- Aréthuse (1895).
- Poèmes, 1887-1892 (1895).
- Les Jeux rustiques et divins (1897).
- La Canne de Jaspe (1897).
- Premiers poèmes (1899).
- Le Trèfle blanc (1899).
- La Double Maîtresse (1900).
- Les Médailles d'Argile (1900).
- Les Amants singuliers (1901).
- Figures et caractères (1901).
- Le Bon Plaisir (1902).
- La Cité des eaux (1902).
- Les Vacances d'un jeune homme sage (1903).
- Le Mariage de minuit (1903).
- Les Rencontres de M. de Bréot (1904).
- Le Passé vivant (1905).
- La Sandale ailée, 1903-1905 (1906).
- Moi, Elle et Lui (1906).
- L'Amour et le Plaisir (1906).
- Esquisses vénitiennes (1906).
- Sujets et paysages (1906).
- La Peur de l'amour (1907).
- Couleur du temps (1909).
- La Flambée (1909).
- Le Miroir des heures (1910).
- Contes de France et d'Italie (1912).
- L'Amphisbène (1912).
- Portraits et souvenirs (1913)'
- Le Plateau de laque (1913).
- Romaine Mirmault (1914).
- L'Illusion héroïque de Tito Bassi (1916).
- 1914-1916 (1918).
- Histoires incertaines (1919).
- La Pécheresse (1920).
- Vestigia flammae (1921).
- Les Bonheurs perdus (1924).
- Le Divertissement provincial. L'entrevue. Proses datées. Baudelaire et les Fleurs du mal (1925).
- Paray-le-Monial (1926).
- Contes pour chacun de nous (1926).
- L'Escapade (1926).
- Monsieur d'Armercœur (1927).
- Le Miracle du fil (1927).
- Le Pavillon fermé (1927).
- Contes vénitiens (1927).
- L'Altana ou la vie vénitienne (1928).
- ''Flamma tenax, 1922-1928 (1928).
- Lui, ou les Femmes et l'Amour (1928).
- Le Vrai Bonheur ou les amants de Stresa (1929).
- Le Voyage d'amour ou l'initiation vénitienne (1930).
- Nos Rencontres. Escales en Méditerranée (1930).
- Choix de poèmes (1931).
- Airs pour l'écho (1933).
- Lettres diverses et curieuses, écrites par plusieurs à l'un d'entre eux (1933).
- De mon temps (1933).
- Le Paradis retrouvé, contes choisis (1937).
References
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Further reading
- Aldington, Richard (1916). "Henri de Régnier," The Dial, Vol. LXI, pp. 171–72.
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- Lowell, Amy (1926). "Henri de Régnier." In: Six French Poets. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, pp. 147–209.
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- 1864 births
- 1936 deaths
- People from Honfleur
- French poets
- Writers from Lower Normandy
- Symbolist poets
- Ballet librettists
- Members of the Académie française
- 19th-century French writers
- 20th-century French writers
- Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur
- Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- French male poets