Jules Laforgue
French symbolist poet who invented free verse (vers libre) and whose ironic, self-conscious poems influenced Eliot's early work. He died at 27.
Works
- Les ComplaintesDecadent poetry of melancholy, irony, and alienation
- L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la LuneIronic reimagining of the moon as a spiritual guide
- Moralites LegendairesProse poems retelling legendary tales with modern sensibility
- Derniers VersFinal poems combining melancholy with modernist innovation