Leconte de lisle biography of barack obama

Leconte de Lisle was born in R�union, son of a former army surgeon, but was educated in Rennes. He returned to R�union in 1832 but moved once more to mainland France in 1837 in order to study law in Paris. After completion of his studies, he returned briefly to R�union but left the island for the last time in 1845.

He became an advocate against slavery and adopted republican politics with which he soon became disenchanted. He sank into poverty and scraped a living as a tutor but, encouraged by Baudelaire, he published Po�mes Antiques in 1852, which confirmed his place in literary circles. He also became assistant librarian at the Palais de Luxembourg in that year. The publication was followed by Po�mes et po�sies in 1854, Le Chemin de la croix in 1859 and Po�mes barbares in 1862 amongst other works.

He was awarded a prize by l'Acad�mie Francaise in 1856 followed by another in 1857 shortly after his marriage to Anne Ad�laide Perray.

He became a highly regarded literary figure numbering H�r�dia, Villiers de l'Ile-Adam, L�on Dierx, Sully Prudhomme et Mallarm� amongst his admirers and formed a close association with Victor Hugo in 1874 after having translated the Illiad and the Odyssey in the 1860s as well as many other Greek classics. He became Officer of the L�gion d'Honneur in 1883 and was awarded a further prize from l'Acad�mie Fran�aise in 1884 for his Po�mes Tragiques. He was elected to the chair of the Academie vacated upon the death of Hugo in 1886.

He died suddenly in Voisins, near Louveciennes, departement Yvelines.

His poetry was in a clear, rhythmic style of classical proportions, observational of, rather than participatory in, the affairs of mankind. He is considered to be a leading representative of Parnassianism which was influenced by the emotional detachment of the Greek myths. Parnassianism sought more strictly to contain the extravagances of the romantic era and formed a bridge to the later symbolist poets. Some of his poems have been set to music by the great composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.