Catulle Mendès [SEP] native language
Catulle Mendès
Catulle Mendès (22 May 1841 – 8 February 1909) was a French poet and man of letters.
Early life and career.
Of Portuguese Jewish extraction, Mendès was born in Bordeaux. After childhood and adolescence in Toulouse, he arrived in Paris in 1859 and quickly became one of the proteges of the poet Théophile Gautier. He promptly attained notoriety with the publication in the "La Revue fantaisiste" (1861) of his "Roman d'une nuit", for which he was condemned to a month
poem published in Scotland
- Catulle Mendès, "Philomela", France
Births.
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February – A. R. Raja Raja Varma (died 1918), Indian, Malayalam-language poet, grammarian, scholar, critic and writer; nephew of Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran
- April 29 – Constantine Cavafy (died 1933), Greek
- June 18 – George Essex Evans (died 1909), Australian
- July 19