René François Armand "Sully" Prudhomme was a French poet and essayist. He was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1901. Born in Paris, Prudhomme originally studied to be an engineer, but turned to philosophy and later to poetry; he declared it as his intention to create scientific poetry for modern times. During his career, Prudhomme gradually shifted from the sentimental style of his first books towards a more personal style which unified the formality of the Parnassus school with his interest in philosophical and scientific subjects.

Pseudonyms: Sully Prudhomme

- La grande allée 1869 poetry melancholy fr

- Le cygne 1869 poetry nature fr

- Les solitudes 1869 poetry melancholy, nature, loneliness fr

- Lucrèce de la nature des choses, la justice 1869 poetry justice, reason, religion fr

- Première solitude 1869 poetry loneliness, childhood fr

- L'automne 1875 poetry nature fr

- Les vaines tendresses 1875 poetry love, melancholy, solitude fr