Vincent Voiture
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Vincent Voiture (24 February 1597 – 26 May 1648), French
Although a follower of the Duke of Orléans, he won the favour of
He published nothing in book form, but his verses and his prose letters (published after his death by his nephew) were the delight of the coteries, and were copied, handed about and admired more perhaps than the work of any contemporary. He had been early introduced by
When at the desire of the duc de Montausier, nineteen poets contributed to the Guirlande de Julie, which was to decide the much-fêted Julie in favour of his suit, Voiture did not take part. The quarrel between the Uranistes and the Jobelins arose over the respective merits of a sonnet of Voiture addressed to a certain Uranie, and of another composed by Isaac de Benserade, till then unknown, on the subject of Job.
Another famous piece of his of the same kind, La Belle Matineuse, is less exquisite, but still admirable, and Voiture stands in the highest rank of writers of
Voiture's death, on 26 May 1648, at the outbreak of the
References
- ^ Jacques Lacombe & Charles Joseph Panckoucke, Encyclopediana, ou Dictionnaire encyclopédique des ana, Hôtel de Thou, Rue des Poitevins, Paris, 1791, p. 492.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Voiture, Vincent". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 28 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 177.
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