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List of poets who have written in the French language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The modern French language does not have a significant stress accent (as English does) or long and short syllables (as Latin does). This means that the French metric line is generally not determined by the number of beats, but by the number of syllables (see syllabic verse; in the Renaissance, there was a brief attempt to develop a French poetics based on long and short syllables [see "musique ...
Poetry was the chief form of 17th-century theater; the vast majority of scripted plays were written in verse (see "Theater" below). Poetry was used in satires (Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux is famous for his Satires (1666)) and epics (inspired by the Renaissance epic tradition and by Tasso) like Jean Chapelain's La Pucelle.
Their style of poetry was dubbed "Counter-Romanticism" and it was led by Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Laforgue and Corbière. [25] It was concerned with synaethesis (the harmony or equilibrium of sensation) [ 26 ] and later described as "the moment when French poetry began to take consciousness of itself as poetry."
Poetry by French poets and poetry written in French. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories, out of 9 total. + French poets (18 C, 251 P)
Epic poems in French (1 C, 26 P) H. Poetry by Michel Houellebecq (2 P) French humorous poems (1 C, 1 P) M. Poetry by Stéphane Mallarm ...
Bible translations into French (10 P) French books (7 C, 75 P) ... French poetry (9 C, 39 P) R. ... Slave Old Man;
Pages in category "17th-century French poets" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.