Louis Aragon was a French poet who lived from 1897 to 1982 and became one of the significant literary figures of twentieth-century France. His work spanned multiple literary movements and he is remembered as an influential voice in modern French poetry.
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Louis Aragon was a French poet. He co-founded, with André Breton and Philippe Soupault, the surrealistic magazine Littérature.
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Louis Aragon ( French: [lwi aʁaɡɔ̃] ; 3 October 1897 – 24 December 1982) was a French poet who was one of the leading voices of the surrealist movement in France. He co-founded with André Breton and Philippe Soupault the surrealist review Littérature. He was also a novelist and editor, a long-time member of the Communist Party and a member of the Académie Goncourt. After 1959, he was a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Aragon's poetry is diverse and varied. He favoured equally poetic prose and fixed-form verse, to which he brought a renewed sensibility. After a very free early period, marked by surrealism and its subversive language, Aragon returned to more classical forms (measured verse; rhyme, even). He felt that this was more in keeping with the national emergency during World War II. After the war, the political side of his poetry gave way more and more to lyricism for its own sake. <a href="https://www.l
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