Is writing poetry a committed act?
Known to all of Paris during his lifetime, François Coppée has now disappeared from school books.
His public positions, as well as his artistic choices, are probably not for nothing.
Born in 1842 in Paris, he began as a simple employee at the Ministry of War.
His first collection,
Le Reliquaire
(1866), made him one of the pillars of the Parnassians, an artistic movement that valued restraint, impersonality and form, as opposed to the subjective and sentimental lyricism of romanticism.
Quickly, he slipped towards a poetry of everyday life with his second collection
Intimacies
in 1868, and in parallel, wrote successful plays.
His poetry was what his very person was, familiar and cordial.
Henri Chantavoine, in 1908
A sensitive and realistic poet, capable of evoking nature (“
The Death of the Birds
”) like life in the streets of the capital (“
In Paris, in summer
”), François Coppée is described by some as the poet of the humble.
If the metric of his texts is perfect, the emotion expressed is sometimes at the limit...
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