Enciclopedia Cattolica

GUÉRIN, CHARLES

Volume VI · p. 734 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

GUÉRIN, CHARLES. - Poeta francese, n. a Luné-ville il 29 dic. 1873, ivi m. il 17 marzo 1907.
GUÉRIN, CHARLES. - Poeta francese, n. a Luné-ville il 29 dic. 1873, ivi m. il 17 marzo 1907.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

CHARLES GUÉRIN. — French poet, born at Lunéville on 29 Dec. 1873, died there on 17 March 1907.

His first collections of verse, *Fleurs de neige* (1893); *Joies grises* (1894); *Le sang des crépuscules* (1895), show the influence of Symbolism. His personality asserts itself in *Le cœur solitaire* (1898), *Le semeur de cendres* (1901), *L’homme intérieur* (1905), works that reveal his most intimate feelings and the long travail of his soul, which raised him from scepticism to faith.

Bibl.: D. Valeri, *Poeti francesi contemporanei*: C. G., in *Nuova ant.*, 184 (1916), pp. 280-90; H. Bordeaux, *Portraits d’homme*, I, Paris 1924, pp. 283-95; J. Nanteuil, *Le drame intérieur de C. G.*, in *L’inquiétude religieuse et les poètes d’aujourd’hui*, ibid. 1925, pp. 119-67; F. Gregh, *Portrait de la poésie moderne. De Rimbaud à Valéry*, ibid. 1939, pp. 217-25.