Works like the sonnet "Her Pure fingernails on high offering their onyx" and The Antique Gods prompted contemporaries like Huysmans to sing his praises. He wrote a dozen love poems to his mistress Mery Laurent during the same period that he labored over his "Grand Oeuvre," which was to be a comprehensive expression of poetr
Works like the sonnet "Her Pure fingernails on high offering their onyx" and The Antique Gods prompted contemporaries like Huysmans to sing his praises. He wrote a dozen love poems to his mistress Mery Laurent during the same period that he labored over his "Grand Oeuvre," which was to be a comprehensive expression of poetry's essence. Though he wrote a notable elegy for his son, Anatol, his best work in that style celebrated his literary hero Edgar Allan Poe. But he gained the most fame for long poems like Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance, The Swan, and Herodias. FTP identify this symbolist and author of an 1876 work illustrated by Edouard Manet, "The Afternoon of a Swan."
Works like the sonnet "Her Pure fingernails on high offering their onyx" and The Antique Gods prompted contemporaries like Huysmans to sing his praises.
Stephane Mallarme