Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
INTRODUCTION AUTHORS PREFACE MAETERLINCK VERHAEREN DE RÉGNIER VIELÉ-GRIFFIN MALLARMÉ SAMAIN QUILLARD HEROLD RETTÉ DE L'ISLE-ADAM TAILHADE RENARD DUMUR EEKHOUD ADAM LAUTRÉAMONT CORBIÈRE RIMBAUD POICTEVIN GIDE LOUYS RACHILDE HUYSMANS LAFORGUE MORÉAS MERRILL SAINT-POL-ROUX DE MON...
Few of those questioned answered. Two-thirds of those who abstained were influenced by the ridiculous appearance of such an ultimatum. How in short could it be that a young poet...
6. Part 6It is the essential point. Mere phrases, yes; but the phrases are no more than the attire and reserve of his art. He has felt, dreamed or thought before speaking; especially has...
2. Part 2The word mysticism during these last years has taken such diverse and even divergent meanings that it must be clearly and newly defined each time one writes it. Certain persons...
1. Part 1INTRODUCTION AUTHORS PREFACE MAETERLINCK VERHAEREN DE RÉGNIER VIELÉ-GRIFFIN MALLARMÉ SAMAIN QUILLARD HEROLD RETTÉ DE L'ISLE-ADAM TAILHADE RENARD DUMUR EEKHOUD ADAM LAUTRÉAMONT C...
4. Part 4Le Temps n'a pu fléchir la courbe de mes seins. Je suis toujours debout et forte dans l'épreuve, Moi, l'éternelle vierge et l'éternelle veuve, Gloire d'Hellas, parmi la guerre a...
7. Part 7Oubli de flûte, heures de rêves sans alarmes, Où tu as su trouver pour ton sang amoureux La douceur d'habiter un séjour odoreux De roses dont les dieux sylvains te font des armes
5. Part 5He was a young man of savage and unexpected originality, a diseased genius and, quite frankly, a mad genius. Imbeciles grow insane and in their insanity the imbecility remains s...
8. Part 8Verlaine is a nature and as such undefinable. Like his life, the rhythms he loves are of broken or rolling lines; he ended by disjoining romantic verse, and having destroyed its...