LAMARTING, ALPHONSE MARIE

Fr. poet; one of pioneers of Romantic school; had deep religious feeling, with some of monotony of verse of preceding age; wrote with ever-increasing facility; traveled a great deal, and mixed in politics, especially in 1848, when he showed great gifts of eloquence and was a member of Executive Committee; scanty means compelled him to subsist on proceeds of pen; romantic feelings depicted in the Meditations, 1820, Les Nouvelles Meditations, 1823, among which is his masterpiece; Le Lac. Jocelyn appeared 1836, journal of a heroic soul; attempted new line, 1835, with Voyage en Orient in prose; best prose Hie rhetorical Historie des Girondins,