← Jules LaforgueL'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Luneby Jules LaforgueIronic reimagining of the moon as a spiritual guideFind on Amazon↗About the authorJules LaforgueFrench symbolist poet who invented free verse (vers libre) and whose ironic, self-conscious poems influenced Eliot's early work. He died at 27.More by Jules LaforgueLes ComplaintesDecadent poetry of melancholy, irony, and alienation→Moralites LegendairesProse poems retelling legendary tales with modern sensibility→Derniers VersFinal poems combining melancholy with modernist innovation→
