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Biography of Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine was a French poet and statesman, born on October 21, 1790, in Mâcon.

He spent his childhood and youth mostly in rural areas. Lamartine's lyrical collection, "Méditations poétiques" (Poetic Meditations, 1820), was a tremendous success. It was in this book that the poetic expression of moods, previously conveyed in the prose of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, and François-René de Chateaubriand, first found its place - vague melancholy, sublime love, acute longing, religious ecstasy, and merging with nature.

Lamartine further developed these themes, more skillfully but less directly, in "La Mort de Socrate" (The Death of Socrates, 1823) and "Nouvelles Méditations poétiques" (New Poetic Meditations, 1823).

In 1830, Lamartine published his "Harmonies poétiques et religieuses" (Poetic and