LECONTE DE LISLE, CHARLES

MARIE (1818-94), a French poet, born in the island of Réunion. He settled in Paris in 1846. His first work, La Venus de Milo, 1848, gained him many friends, especially among the devotees of cla ical literature, and he produced his Poems Antiques, which contain some of his best work, 1852. These were followed by Poems e¢& Poesies, 1854; Le Chemin de la Croix, 1859; Poems Barbares, 1862; Les Erinnyes, a tragedy after the Greek model, i872; Poems Tragiques, 1884; and L’ A poll on ide, 1888. Besides this, he translated Theocritus, Aischylus, Horace, Sophocles, and Euripi des. Derniers Poems appeared posthumously, 1899. His poems had a great influence on the young poets of his time, and are marked by cla ic regularity and faultle ne of form. He was made a istant librarian at the Luxembourg in 1873, and succeeded to Victor Hugo’s chair at the Academy in 1886.