Rémy de Gourmont
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Remy de Gourmont (April 4, 1858 - September 27, 1915) was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. (The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, although very common and used by Ezra Pound in translations of his work.)
His poetic works include Litanies de la rose (1892), Les Saintes du paradis (1898), and Divertissements (1912). His poems plunge from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy; they reflect, more than anything else, his interest in mediæval Latin literature, and his works led to a fad for late Latin literature among authors like Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was also a literary critic of great importance, and was admired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in that capacity.
Selected works
Prose
- Sixtine, roman de la vie cérébrale
- Lettres à l'Amazone
- Le latin mystique
- Le joujou patriotisme
- Le Livre des masques
- Esthétique de la langue française
- Physique de l'amour
Poetry
- Litanies de la rose
- Les Saintes du paradis
- Divertissements
Quotation
- Que tes mains soient bénies, car elles sont impures!
- Elles ont des péchés cachés à toutes les jointures;
- Leur peau blanche s'est trempée dans l'odeur âpre des caresses
- Secrètes, parmi l'ombre blanche où rampent les caresses,
- Et l'opale prisonnière qui se meurt à ton doigt,
- C'est le dernier soupir de Jésus sur la croix.
- ::::---Oraisons mauvaises
External links
- Selected poems by Remy de Gourmont (in French): http://poesie.webnet.fr/auteurs/gourmont.html
- Les amateurs de Remy de Gourmont (site is in French): http://www.remydegourmont.org/
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