Poets

Théodore Faullain de Banville (1823 – 1891) was a French poet and writer. His work was influential on the Symbolist movement in French literature in the late 19th century. Wikipedia

Paul Jules Barbier (1825 – 1901) was a French poet, writer and opera librettist who often wrote in collaboration with Michel Carré. He was a noted Parisian bon vivant and man of letters. Wikipedia

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 – 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited from Romantics, but are based on observations of real life. Wikipedia

Pietro Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi (1698 –  1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio , was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti. Wikipedia

Vicomte Victor-Marie Hugo (1802 – 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote abundantly in an exceptional variety of genres: lyrics, satires, epics, philosophical poems, epigrams, novels, history, critical essays, political speeches, funeral orations, diaries, letters public and private,… Read More