Aloysius Bertrand | |
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 Self-portrait by Bertrand | |
| Born | Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand 20 April 1807 Ceva, Piedmont, France (now in Italy) |
| Died | 29 April 1841 (aged 34) Paris, France |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, playwright, journalist |
| Notable work | Gaspard de la Nuit |
Louis Jacques Napoléon Bertrand, better known by his pen name Aloysius Bertrand (20 April 1807 — 29 April 1841), was a French Romantic poet, playwright and journalist. He is famous for having introduced prose poetry in French literature,[1] and is considered a forerunner of the Symbolist movement. His masterpiece is the collection of prose poems Gaspard de la Nuit published posthumously in 1842; three of its poems were adapted to an eponymous piano suite by Maurice Ravel in 1908.
- ^ Stuart Friebert and David Young (eds.) Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem. (1995).