Henri Cazalis (1840-1909), was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the
pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor. He was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Seine-et-Oise).
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.
Some of his poems have been set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Duparc, Charles Bordes, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Edouard
Trémisot 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.
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