Alphonse de Lamartine (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
The life of Alphonse de Lamartine (lah-mahr-teen) can be schematized as a pattern that shifts among four points: political commitments, a sentimental intermixture of women and natural scenery, a personalized and heretical form of Catholicism, and a semiautobiographical approach to poetry. Each, through circumstance or through the poet’s whims, was allowed periodically to reach an ascendancy over the others and to dominate his time and energy. If one is to understand Lamartine’s heavily autobiographical poetry, one must consider his politics, his religion, and his love of women and...
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