Aldous Huxley translated Gourmont's novel A Virgin Heart
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Remy de Gourmont
Remy de Gourmont was a French Symbolist poet, novelist, and influential critic. He was widely read in his era, and an important influence on Blaise Cendrars and Georges Bataille. The spelling Rémy de Gourmont is incorrect, albeit common.
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culture · French writer (1858–1915) · writer · poet · novelist · playwright · poet lawyer · literary critic · philosopher · critic · journalist · essayist · also Remy de Gourmont, Remy De Gourmont, Rémy de Gourmont, Remye Gourmont, Remy-Marie-Charles de Gourmont, Gourmont
Born 4 April 1858 · Died 27 September 1915 · Q353876
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1915· 2 entries
Died 1915-09-27.
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That the English Imagist poetic movement derived from the French Symbolistes, Eliot describing Gourmont as the "critical conscience of his generation"
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1910· 1 entry
Gourmont met Natalie Clifford Barney, to whom he dedicated his Lettres à l'Amazone (Letters to the Amazon)
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1904· 1 entry
Awarded Saintour Prize (1904).
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1894· 1 entry
Career landmark: publication manager (1894–1896).
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1891· 1 entry
Published a polemic called Le Joujou Patriotisme (Patriotism, a toy) in which he argued that France and Germany shared an aesthetic culture and urged a rapprochement between the two countries, contrary to the wishes o
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1889· 1 entry
Gourmont became one of the founders of the Mercure de France, which became a rallying point of the Symbolist movement
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1881· 1 entry
Gourmont was employed by the Bibliothèque nationale
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1879· 1 entry
Studied at University of Caen Normandy, law degree in France (1876–1879).
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1866· 1 entry
Moved to a manor close to Villedieu near La Manche
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-04-04.
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