Germain Nouveau (1851-1920), poet and painter, friend of Rimbaud and Verlaine, discreet disciple of Mallarme, led a vie de boheme while composing poems of both religious and erotic inspiration. This book is both a biographical study and an introduction to the works of a long-neglected poet whose calligraphy is to be found in the manuscript of Rimbaud's famous Illuminations. Breton, Aragon, and Eluard acknowledged their debt to this undervalued precursor of French Surrealism.
| ISBN: | 9780807892244 |
| Publication date: | 30th January 1983 |
| Author: | Alexandre L Amprimoz |
| Publisher: | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 200 pages |
| Series: | North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism Literary companions, book reviews and guides Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: general |