Two of the greatest French Renaissance poets credited with founding a revolutionary movement in French literature were deaf poets: Pierre de Ronsard, the Prince of Poets, and Joachim Du Bellay. They ...
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In 19th-century French literary circles, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) was celebrated as the high priest of the Symbolist movement, artificer of intricately musical lyrics of resonant and vertiginous ...