Banville, Théodore de

Banville, Théodore de

▪ French poet
in full  Étienne-Claude-Jean-Baptiste-Théodore-Faullain de Banville 
born March 14, 1823, Moulins, France
died March 13, 1891, Paris

      French poet of the mid-19th century who was a late disciple of the Romantics, a leader of the Parnassian movement, a contributor to many of the literary reviews of his time, and an influence on the Symbolists.

      His first book of verse, Les Cariatides (1842; “The Caryatids”), owed much to the style and manner of Victor Hugo, but Banville rejected the poor craftsmanship of much French Romantic poetry. His Petit Traité de poésie française (1872; “Little Treatise on French Poetry”) shows his interest in the technicalities of versification, of which he became a master. He considered rhyme to be the single most important element in French verse. Following the lead of the critic Charles Sainte-Beuve, who had revived interest in the sonnet, Banville experimented with various fixed forms that had been neglected since the mid-16th century—e.g., the ballade and the rondeau. The chief quality of his poetry is its technical virtuosity, but contemporaries also admired its delicate wit and fantasy. His best-known collection is Les Odes funambulesques (1857; “Fantastic Odes”).

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