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MOREAS, JEAN (1856-1910)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 826 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOL-MOS
MOREAS, JEAN (1856-1910) , French poet, born at Athens on the 15th of April 1856, was the grandson of Papadiomontopoulos, one of the heroes of Missolonghi. He was one of the leaders of the symbolist
movement
  in French poetry, advocating a relaxation of the stringent rules governing French verse; but his early volumes of poems, Les Syrles (1884), Les Cantile nes (1886), and Le Pelerin passionne (1891) won recognition beyond the limits of this school. In the XIX siecle (August rr,1885) he formulated the principles of the symbolists, defending them from the appellation of " decadent," and in the literary supplement of the Figaro (Sep 18, 1886) he published a manifesto justifying the innovations of the new school as the natural development of the prosody of Baudelaire,
Mallarme
  and Verlaine. Le Merin passionne was sympathetically reviewed by Anatole France. As time went on he repudiated the
licence
  claimed by the symbolists, and became the
leader
  of an offshoot from the main
body
  known as the'etole romane, the
chief
  members of which are
Raymond
  de la Tailhede, Maurice du Plessys, Ernest Raynaud, and the critic Charles Maurras. Moreas and his new followers returned to the traditional severity of French versification, and to the classical and antique tradition. His later volumes are Poesies, 28861896 (1898), and Stances (6 vols., complete ed. 1905), Histoire de
Jean
  de Paris, foi de France (1902), Voyage en Grice en 1897 (1902), Conies de la vieille France (1903), and a classic drama in verse, Iphigenie d Aulis (1904), in close imitation of Euripides, which was represented on the 24th of August 1903 in the ancient theatre of Orange, and subsequently at the Odeon in Paris. He died on the 31st of
March
  1910.
See Anatole France, La Vie litteraire (4th ser., 1892) ; A. van Bever and P. Leautaud, Poeles d'aujourd'hui, 188019oo (11th ed., 1905); P. Berthelot, art. " Symbolisme " in La Grande encyclopidie; and J. de Gourmont,
Jean
  Moreas, biographie critique (1905).


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