Sully-Prudhomme

Sully-Prudhomme (B * PARIS, 1839 – D † CHÂTENAY-MALABRY, 1907) Pen name of René François Armand Prudhomme. Identified as a Parnassian poet, his early poems are distinct from theirs in their interior analysis and troubled, melancholy sensibility. Later in life he attempted to transform extremely technical scientific and philosophical subjects into epic poetry, the result is often quite dense and somewhat dry. He became a »positivist« philosophically, regretting his early pessimism, and extolling…