Henri Cazalis
Henri Cazalis (French: [kazalis]; 9 March 1840, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise – 1 July 1909, Geneva) was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor. His works include: Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865) Vita tristis. Romances sans musique dans le mode mineur (1865) Melancholia (1868) Le Livre du néant (1872) Henry Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre (1872) L'Illusion (1875-1893) Cantique des cantiques (1885) Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896) William Morris (1897).
Henri Cazalis
Ricardo de los Rios · scan from 'Œuvres de Jean Lahor: L'Illusion, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, Ve édition, s.d. [1906?] · Public domain
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- France.
- Occupation
- poet, librettist, philosopher, physician and writer.
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour, prix Archon-Despérouses and Vitet Prize.
- Languages
- French.
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Henri Cazalis (French: [kazalis]; 9 March 1840, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise – 1 July 1909, Geneva) was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor. His works include: Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865) Vita tristis. Romances sans musique dans le mode mineur (1865) Melancholia (1868) Le Livre du néant (1872) Henry Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre (1872) L'Illusion (1875-1893) Cantique des cantiques (1885) Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896) William Morris (1897).
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Danse macabre
Danse macabre
The author of the Livre du néant had 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 (cf. Le Parnasse contemporain). Some of his poems have been set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Duparc, Charles Bordes, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Edouard Trémisot, Dagmar de Corval Rybner, and Paul Paray. He also maintained a correspondence of interest with the poet Stéphane Mallarmé from 1862 to 1871. See a notice by Paul Bourget in Anthologie des poétes fr. Du XIXieme siècle (1887–1888); Jules Lemaître, Les Contemporains (1889); Émile Faguet in the Revue bleue (October 1893). George Santayana's Poetry and Religion (1900) has an essay on his concept of La gloire du néant.
Saint-Saëns' Danse macabre ('Dance of Death') is based on this poem written by Henri Cazalis.
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1840
Henri Cazalis was born in 1840 at Cormeilles-en-Parisis.
1891
Hygiène et régime des arthritiques / par Henri Cazalis., dated 1891, held by Wellcome Collection.
1909
Henri Cazalis died in 1909 at Geneva.
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- Un thermaliste hors du commun Henri Cazalis (1840-1909) : médecin poète, La Presse thermale et climatique, 2024
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