Gustave Kahn
Gustave Kahn (1859-1936) was a French Symbolist poet.
Kahn claimed to have invented the term vers libre, or free verse; he was in any case one of the first European exponents of the form; he wrote rhymed verse as well. His principal publications include Les Palais nomades, 1887, Domaine de Fée, 1895, and Le Livre d'Images, 1897. Kahn also made a valuable contribution to the history of the movement with his book Symbolistes et décadents, 1902. Several of his poems were set to music by the composer Charles Loeffler.
Quotation:
- Les Paons
- Se penchant vers les dahlias,
- Des paons cabraient des rosaces lunaires,
- L'assouplissement des branches vénère
- Son pâle visage aux mourants dahlias.
- Elle écoute au loin les brèves musiques
- Nuit claire aux ramures d'accords,
- Et la lassitude a bercé son corps
- Au rythme odorant des pures musiques.
- Les paons ont dressé la rampe ocellée
- Pour la descente de ses yeux vers le tapis
- De choses et de sens
- Qui va vers l'horizon, parure vermiculée
- De son corps alangui.
- En l'âme se tapit
- le flou désir molide récits et d'encens.
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