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What remains to be done is trifling compared to the immense labour already achieved. Yet this last step—ever the hardest to take—demands tranquillity and conviction. If the new artists appear less assiduous than their forebears, we must consider whether present circumstances favour artistic endeavour as much as those of old. Before bringing to light for…
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As M. Mallarmé observes, books of verse are always perfectly splendid—how could they be anything less? The spell of ordered number and ever-enriching Rhyme redeems all. Yet surely one ought never to produce “books of verse”. Would you, without being a musician, presume to touch the harp in a drawing-room? You know full well that…
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Those who seek a work of criticism in these pages will be disappointed: disappointed too will be those who expect to find here the manifesto of a new School. There are no longer any literary schools, there are only individual manifestations. Three writers in agreement on principles — this is something we shall see no…
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René Ghil (1862–1925) Photographer unknown The essay here presented in English for the first time is one of the most substantial critical studies devoted to the poet and theorist René Ghil (1862–1925) during his own lifetime. Published in La Revue Indépendante in August 1891 — that distinguished Parisian monthly which had already served as a…
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René Ghil (1862–1925) Photographer unknown This is the first English translation of René Ghil’s De la Poésie Scientifique (Paris: Gastein-Serge, Éditeur, 1909), a foundational text in the history of late 19th-century French poetry and early modernist poetics. René Ghil (1862–1925) stands as one of the most ambitious yet unjustly neglected figures of the late nineteenth-century…