Works: Poésies, 1818; _les Pleurs_, 1833; _Pauvres Fleurs_, 1839; _Contes en vers pour les enfants_, Lyon, 1840; _Bouquets et prières_, 1843; there is a selection, with notice by Sainte-Beuve, with the title: _Poésies de Madame Desbordes-Valmore_. For reference: Sainte-Beuve, _Portraits contemporains_, vol. ii; _Causeries du lundi_, vol. xiv; _Nouveaux lundis_, xii; these notices are collected in a volume: _Madame Desbordes-Valmore, sa vie et sa correspondance_; Montesquiou-Fezensac, _Félicité, étude sur la poésie de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore_, 1894. 57. LES ROSES DE SAADI. Saadi (1195-1296) was a Persian poet; one of his works is the Gulistan, or Garden of Roses. ALPHONSE-MARIE-LOUIS DE LAMARTINE. 1790-1869 The first great poet of the century and still one of the greatest. He passed a quiet youth in the shelter of home influences on his father's estate near Mâcon, receiving his most lasting impressions from his mother's instruction, from the fields and woods, and from certain favorite books, among which were the Bible and Ossian. This education was supplemented by a visit to Italy in 1811-12, memorable for the episode of Graziella, and a short service in the royal guards. His first volume, the _Méditations poétiques_ (1820), was something entirely new in French letters and made him famous at once. These poems were saturated with the poet's personality and informed with his emotions; and to communicate his pervading melancholy he found the secret of lines which, while they did not yet have the color, brilliancy, and variety that the Romanticists presently gave to verse, charmed the ear with a harmony and a music unattained before. His long poems, with more or less of philosophical intention, especially _Jocelyn_ (1836), are important works, but it was as a lyric poet that he made his chief impression. Works: _Méditations poétiques_, 1820; _Nouvelles Méditations_, 1823; _Harmonies poétiques et religieuses_, 1830; _Recueillements poétiques_, 1839; _Poésies inédites_, 1839; _Poésies inédites_, 1873; republished under the same names in various collected editions of his _Oeuvres_ since 1860. For reference: Faguet, _Études littéraires sur le dix-neuvième siècle_, 1887; Sainte-Beuve,_ Premiers lundis_, vol. i; _Portraits contemporains_, vol. i; F. Brunetière, _Évolution de la poésie lyrique_, vol. i; _Histoire et littérature_, vol. iii, 1892; F. Reyssié, _la Jeunesse de Lamartine_, 1891; E. Deschanel, _Lamartine_, 2 vols., 1893; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. vi, 1896; E. Zyromski, _Lamartine poète lyrique_, 1898.