Félix-Antoine Savard

Table of Contents

Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics

Read Next

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Britannica’s Book Bingo

10 Captivating Contemporary Novels Set in the British Isles

9 American Countercultural Books

Discover

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

9 Mind-Altering Plants

Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Félix-Antoine Savard: Facts & Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born	August 31, 1896 • Quebec • Canada
Died	August 24, 1982 (aged 85) • Quebec • Canada

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

James Crerar Reaney

Canadian writer

Robert Guy Choquette

Canadian writer

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

Canadian poet

Antoine Gérin-Lajoie

Canadian author

Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Eugène Seers

French-Canadian poet

Michel Bibaud

French-Canadian author

Victor Hugo

French writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan author

Théophile Gautier

French author

François Mauriac

French author

Jules Romains

French author

H.D.

American poet

Assia Djebar

Algerian writer and filmmaker

Mohammed Dib

Algerian author

Quiz

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Félix-Antoine Savard: Facts & Related Content

Facts

Related Biographies

Related Quizzes and Features