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- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882; American)
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869; French)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861; English)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882; American)
- Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855; French)
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Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855; French)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Romanticism: 100 Poems
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Part
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882; American)
- Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869; French)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861; English)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882; American)
- Gérard de Nerval (1808–1855; French)
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Summary
Nerval was for a time a disciple of Victor Hugo and took part in the Hernani campaign in 1830. He travelled widely and published diversely: plays, novels, stories, essays, travel writing, and indefinable semi-fictional reveries such as Sylvie (1853). He is usually considered an extreme Romantic for his obsessive interest in folklore, the exotic, the primitive, the occult, dandyism, and dreams. He helped revive the sonnet with his difficult but fascinating little collection, Les chimères, from which this one is taken. He was found dead by hanging, most likely a suicide.
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 150 - 151Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021