Théodore de Banville

Théodore de Banville was born in Moulins on 14 March 1823, the son of a naval officer. A pupil at the Lycée Condorcet in Paris, he published at nineteen a first collection that was well received. Encouraged by Victor Hugo and Théophile Gautier, a friend of Baudelaire, he was a drama critic and an author of comedies in verse. In May 1870, the young Arthur Rimbaud sent him his poems, asking for his support. In 1872 he published a treatise on versification that defended purity of form. He died in Paris on 13 March 1891.

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• PoetryOdes funambulesquesThéodore de Banville · 1857not translated into EnglishLiterature