Paul Fort
Paul Fort (born February 1, 1872 in Reims , † April 20, 1960 in Montlhéry , Essonne , France ) was a French poet and playwright .
Life
Paul Fort published his first poems in the Mercure de France in 1896 , and from 1905 in his own magazine Vers et prose . For the performance of his plays he founded his own theater, which he called the Théâtre d'Art .
Fort is one of the most important French poets of symbolism , alongside Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé . In their successor he was appointed Prince des poètes in 1912 . Individual poems were set to music by Arthur Honegger (1916) or Jean Absil (1935), as well as by Henri Dutilleux (1938), André Caplet, Willem Pijper, and later by the chansonnier Georges Brassens .
He was a commander in the French Legion of Honor and a member of the jury for the Prix de Jeunesse, founded in 1934 .
Works
Poetry
- Les Ballades françaises , 1896–1958
drama
- La Petite Bête , 1890
- Louis XI, curieux homme , 1921
- Ysabeau , 1924
- Le Camp du Drap d'or , 1926
- L'Or / Ruggieri , 1927
- Guillaume le Bâtard, ou la Conquête de l'Angleterre , 1928
- L'Assaut de Paris , 1933
- Coups du heurtoir , 1943
Other
- Histoire de la poésie française depuis 1850 (with Louis Mandin ), 1926
- Mes Mémoires, toute la vie d'un poète, 1872–1943 , 1944
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Away, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French poet and playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1872 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Reims , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1960 |
| Place of death | Montlhéry , France |