author
Henri de Régnier
1864–1936
A leading voice of French Symbolism, this poet wrote with elegance, mystery, and a gift for turning mood into music. He was also a novelist and critic whose work helped shape French literary life in the early 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
La cité des eaux
by Henri de Régnier
Le vrai bonheur : ou, Les amants de Stresa
by Henri de Régnier
About the author
Born in Honfleur on December 28, 1864, Henri de Régnier became one of the best-known French poets of his generation. He studied law in Paris, but literature drew him away from a diplomatic path and toward the Symbolist movement, where his refined, suggestive style quickly won attention.
Régnier wrote poetry, novels, and essays, and he was widely admired in the first decades of the 20th century. Sources describe him as a major Symbolist poet, and his work is often noted for its graceful language, classical poise, and quietly melancholic atmosphere.
He was elected to the Académie française, a sign of the high regard he enjoyed in French letters. Régnier died in Paris on May 23, 1936, leaving behind a body of work that bridges the dreamlike richness of Symbolism and a more measured, polished French literary tradition.