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Jules Laforgue


Born
in Montevideo, Uruguay
August 16, 1860

Died
August 20, 1887

Genre
Poetry


Jules Laforgue (Montevideo, 16 August 1860 – Paris, 20 August 1887) was an innovative French poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".

Strongly influenced by Walt Whitman, Laforgue was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. Philosophically, he was an ardent disciple of Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann. His poetry would be one of the major influences on the young T. S. Eliot (cf. Prufrock and other observations) and Ezra Pound. Louis Untermeyer wrote, "Prufrock, published in 1917, was immediately hailed as a new manner in English literature and belittled as an echo of Laforgue an ...more

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Average rating: 3.86 · 739 ratings · 69 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors
Poems of Jules Laforgue
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Les Complaintes
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3.24 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1885 — 20 editions
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Moralités légendaires
3.89 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1887 — 60 editions
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Last Verses
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Essential Poems & Prose of ...
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L'Imitation de Notre Dame l...
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1887
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Selected Writings
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3.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1956 — 7 editions
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Poésies complètes
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El sollozo de la tierra
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Berlin: The City and the Court
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“I shall have spent my life in railway stations
Nearly departing
For catastrophes,
All for love
And my heart haloed with the madness of love.
Nothing is quite so beautiful as the trains I’ve missed …”
― Jules Laforgue, Last Verses
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“And above it all, the gentle, eternal stars.”
― Jules Laforgue
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“O who can cure

Poor little Andromeda

Naughty naughty

Naughty thing


Tears run down her childish breast, the song being so sad. The shower has already passed and now the wind ruffles her hair, and it’s squalling everywhere…


Naughty naughty

Miaow Miaow

Since no one comes to help me

I’ll throw myself in the water!”
― Jules Laforgue
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