Henri Morier

Swiss literary scholar (1910–2004) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henri Morier (23 May 1910 – 20 December 2004) was a Swiss literary scholar.

Life

Born in Geneva, he was a professor of French at the University of Geneva. He specialised in French-language poetry and rhetoric.[1]

Among his books are Le rythme du vers libre symboliste, recipient of the 1946 Prix Bordin, and La psychologie des styles, recipient of the 1959 Prix de la langue française [fr] from the Académie Française.[2]

He wrote the Dictionnaire de poétique et de rhétorique, which first was published in 1961 and appeared in several revised and expanded editions.[3] The book received the 1962 Prix Saintour.[4]

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