Charles Vildrac
Charles Vildrac (November 22, 1882 – June 25, 1971), born "Charles Messager",[1] was a French playwright and poet.
Born in Paris, Vildrac's first poems were written when he was a teenager in the 1890s. In 1901 he published Le Verlibrisme, a defense of traditional verse. In 1912 he published a collection of prose poems.[1]
He was a member of the l'Abbaye de Créteil which he founded with Georges Duhamel. He died in Saint-Tropez.
The Prix de poésie Charles Vildrac is named for him.
Works
- Livre d'amour (1910)
- Chants du désespéré (1920), poems
- Le Paquebot Tenacity (1920), a play
- Poèmes de l'Abbaye (1925), poems
- Prolongements (1927), poems
- La Brouille (1930)
- Le Jardinier de Samos (1932)
- Poucette (1936), a play
- Trois mois de prison (1942)
- D'après l'écho (1949)
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Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1971 Britannica Book of the Year (for events of 1971), "Obituaries 1971" article, page 532, "Vildrac, Charles" item
- France, Peter (Ed.) (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.
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