Alfred Victor de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. Read full biography of Alfred de Vigny →
The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide... →
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to... →
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the... →
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm that moves us?
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds... →
Alfred Victor de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.