Wilhelm Ténint

Wilhelm Ténint (born 1813) was a minor French Romantic writer.

He was a fervent admirer of Victor Hugo and of the "modern school" of Romantic literature. He published in Parisian literary journals such as "La Presse", and was a member of the Société des gens de lettres. In 1844, he published a handboook for and defense of Romantic prosody titled "Prosodie de l'école moderne", which had a brief introduction by Hugo and a longer introduction by Emile Deschamps. Ténint's handbook mistakenly claimed that the unique, nonce structure of Jean Passerat's 1574 "Villanelle" was an old French form akin to terza rima; the poet Théodore de Banville subsequently "revived" this "Renaissance form," thus helping to create the modern 19-line poetic form called the villanelle. Ténint was placed under house arrest for pederasty in 1851 and thereafter left France for Sweden, where he translated Swedish works into French. cite book | last = Siegel | first = Patricia | title = Wilhelm Ténint et sa Prosodie de l'école moderne | publisher = Slatkine | location = Geneve | year = 1986 | isbn = 9782051007535 ]

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