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Vigny

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Vigny
Alfred Victor de . 1797--1863, French romantic poet, novelist, and dramatist, noted for his pessimistic lyric verse Po?mes antiques et modernes (1826) and Les Destin?es (1864), the novel Cinq-Mars (1826), and the play Chatterton (1835)


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On one occasion, he checked into the deluxe Hotel De Vigny - described as the "perfect romantic hotel in central Paris".
Scott had a legion of imitators, most prominently James Fenimore Cooper, but also--to a greater or less extent--Balzac, Hugo, Vigny, Dumas Pere, Pushkin, Manzoni, Mickiewicz, Arnim, Hauff, Alexis, Stifter, Immermann, Jovellanos, Szecheny, and Eotvos.
On the other, it provides some delicious juxtapositions--Gunter Grass followed by Kate Greenaway, Alfred de Vigny by Kurt Vonnegut As an "alternate reading path," he adds a chronological listing (from 1749, Goethe, to 1964, Lethem).
 
 
 
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