Tristan Corbière

Heather Williams

Ed. by Nigel Harkness, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.05: French Writing and Culture: The Nineteenth-Century , 1800-1900.
Vol. editors: Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Nigel Harkness (University of Newcastle upon Tyne), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield), Jennifer Yee (University of Oxford)

Dates

Born 18 Jul 1845
Died 1 Mar 1875

Places

Active in France

Activities

Primary

Poet

Resources

Born Édouard-Joachim Corbière on the north coast of Brittany the son of a marine officer and novelist (Édouard Corbière, 1793-1875), Tristan’s reputation as poet rests on a single, poorly received collection published at the author’s (and his father”s) expense in 1873: Les Amours jaunes (existing translation; These Jaundiced Loves). It was Paul Verlaine’s notorious essay in Les Poètes maudits (not yet translated; Cursed Poets) that brought Tristan Corbière the posthumous attention that he deserved a decade later, but it was also Verlaine’s view of him that dominated his reception for more than a century. His short, sickly life in deepest, s…

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Citation: Williams, Heather. "Tristan Corbière". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 December 2017 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13953, accessed 18 April 2024.]

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