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Renée Vivien


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
June 11, 1877

Died
November 18, 1909

Genre
Poetry, Fiction


Renée Vivien, born Pauline Mary Tarn, was a British poet who wrote in the French language. She took to heart all the mannerisms of Symbolism, as one of the last poets to claim allegiance to the school. Her compositions include sonnets, hendecasyllabic verse, and prose poetry.

Renée's poetry and novels show several sources of inspiration: Natalie Barney, Violet Shilleto, Pierre Louys, and Sappho. Natalie inspired retellings of their relationship through prose and poem. Violet Shilleto, Renée's childhood friend and love who died in 1901, appears in Renée's work through repeated images of violets and the color purple. Pierre Louys's sensual "Songs of Bilitis" and Sappho's evocative poems about women-love influenced Renée's poetic style. Sappho, ...more

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Average rating: 4.12 · 1,756 ratings · 269 reviews · 129 distinct works • Similar authors
A Woman Appeared to Me
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4.22 avg rating — 421 ratings — published 1904 — 28 editions
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The Woman of the Wolf and O...
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3.75 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1904 — 52 editions
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Poèmes choisis
4.32 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2019
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The Muse of the Violets: Poems
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4.27 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1982
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A Crown of Violets
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Dal verde al viola
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Poems De Renee Vivien
4.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions
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Une femme m'apparut...
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Cendres et poussières
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1902 — 20 editions
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Etudes et Preludes
4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1901 — 7 editions
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“I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.”
― Renée Vivien
tags: life, wit
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“I have loved to the limit of my strength. No one has a right to ask more of any human being.”
― Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
tags: love, love-quotes
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“She embodies all the melancholy of autumn. She has learned to cherish with mournful tenderness a past she dares not remember.”
― Renée Vivien, A Woman Appeared to Me
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