Henri Morier

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]