Alfred de Vigny, “Le Cor” Poetry, theatricality, musicality

Written in 1824 and published in the Annales romantiques in 1826, “Le Cor” is the result of intense aesthetic reflection carried out by Alfred de Vigny early in his career. A remnant of Roland, an unfinished tragedy, and inspired by readings of Shakespeare and Wieland, this poem bears witness to the extraordinary inventiveness of the Romantic poets of the 1820s and shows the extent to which early Romanticism was above all an undertaking to renew literary forms and genres.