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René Char (June 14, 1907 - February 19, 1988) was a 20th century poet.

He was born in L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in the Vaucluse departement of France and died 1988 in Paris, France, who is the subject of many contraversies in France which are not well-known in the English-speaking world. Some commentators have accused him of aggressive self-promotion. For example, he was one of the few poets to have been published in the prestiguous collection "la Pléiade" during his lifetime and he kept track of all of the critical books dedicated to his work exceedingly closely. Others see him as a willful obscurantist, who made all too ready use of hermeticism to trick his academic supporters. Still others have accused him of a snobby obsession with Paris. But to focus on these contraversies is to avoid the difficult work of evaluating his poems. In poems such as Lettera Amorosa (an early work which many critics find to be full of health and of freshness), in some of his poetic aphorisms in Feuillets d'Hypnos, René Char has produced some of the most challenging and lively moments in contemporary French poetry.

Adapted from Piers Tenniel

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