Henri Cazalis
Henri Cazalis (
1840 -
July,
1909),
French poet and man of letters, was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (
Seine-et-Oise) in
1840. He wrote under the
pseudonyms of
Jean Caselli and
Jean Lahor.
His works include:
- Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865)
- Vita tristis, Reveries fantastiques, Romances sans musique (1865)
- Le Livre du néant (1872)
- Henry Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre (1872)
- L'Illusion (1875-1893)
- Melancholia (1878)
- Cantique des cantiques (1885)
- Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896)
- William Morris (1897).
The author of the
Livre du néant has a predilection for gloomy subjects and especially for pictures of death. His oriental habits of thought earned for him the title of the
Hindou du Parnasse contemporain.
See a notice by P Bourget in Anthologie des poétes fr. du XIXieme siècle (1887-1888); Jules Lemaître, Les Contemporains (1889); Émile Faguet in the Revue bleue (October 1893).
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