Henri Cazalis

Henri Cazalis (1840 - July, 1909), French poet and man of letters, was born at Cormeilles-en-Parisis (Seine-et-Oise) in 1840. He wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor.

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.

See a notice by P Bourget in Anthologie des poétes fr. du XIXieme siècle (1887-1888); Jules Lemaître, Les Contemporains (1889); Émile Faguet in the Revue bleue (October 1893).

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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