Near the end of his life he was styled the Saint Vincent de Paul of poetry.
Jasmin might be classed among the Uneducated Poets.

But what poet is not uneducated at the beginning of his career?
The essential education of the poet is not taught in the schools.
The lowly man, against whom the asperities of his lot have closed the doors of worldly academies, may nevertheless have some special vocation for the poetic life.

Academies cannot shut him out from the odour of the violet or the song of the nightingale.

He hears the lark's song filling the heavens, as the happy bird fans the milk-white cloud with its wings.
He listens to the purling of the brook, the bleating of the lamb, the song of the milkmaid, and the joyous cry of the reaper.

Thus his mind is daily fed with the choicest influences of nature.