Rémy de Gourmont (1858-1915) was a French Symbolist poet and influential critic.
His poetic works include Litanies de la rose (1892), Les Saintes du paradis (1898), and Divertissements (1912). His poems plunge from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy; they reflect, more than anything else, his interest in mediæval Latin literature, and his works led to a a fad for late Latin literature among Symbolist authors like Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was also a literary critic of great importance, and was admired by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in that capacity.
Selected poems by Rémy de Gourmont (in French): http://poesie.webnet.fr/auteurs/gourmont.html
Les amateurs de Rémy de Gourmont (site is in French): http://www.remydegourmont.org/Quotation
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