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Date 1886 - c. 1930
Significant Works A Season in Hell • Against the Grain • Axel’s Castle • Ubu roi
Related Artists Jean Moréas • Gustave Kahn • Arthur Rimbaud • Paul Gauguin • André Gide • Paul Verlaine • Stéphane Mallarmé • Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok • Paul Claudel • Fernand Khnopff • Andrey Bely • Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov • Maurice Maeterlinck • Émile Verhaeren • Charles Cros • Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov • Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov • Joris-Karl Huysmans • Charles Van Lerberghe • Jules Laforgue • Alfred Jarry • Aleksey Mikhaylovich Remizov • Sophus Claussen • Béla Balázs • Odilon Redon • Mario Luzi • Maurice Denis • Francis Viélé-Griffin • Auguste, comte de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam • Ahmed Haşim • Gustave Moreau • George Seferis • Max Elskamp • Henri de Régnier • Ramón López Velarde • Léon-Paul Fargue • Pierre Puvis de Chavannes • Tryggve Andersen • Karel van de Woestijne • Giovanni Segantini • Georges Rodenbach • João da Cruz e Sousa • Camilo Pessanha • Einar Benediktsson • Jan Thorn-Prikker • Paul Adam • Peyo Yavorov • Sigbjørn Obstfelder • Eugénio de Castro • Johannes Jørgensen • Paul Fort • Abraham Shlonsky • Édouard Dujardin

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The Poor Fisherman, oil on canvas by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1881; in the Louvre, Paris.
Arthur Rimbaud.
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Joris-Karl Huysmans, detail of an oil painting by Jean-Louis Forain.
Death: My Irony Surpasses all Else!, lithograph by Odilon Redon, 1889; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Moreau, Gustave: Orpheus
Paul Claudel.
Auguste, comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, drawing by Paterne Berrichon.
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