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KAHN, GUSTAVE (1859- )

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KAHN, GUSTAVE (1859- ) , See also:French poet, was See also:born at See also:Metz on the 21st of See also:December 1859. He was educated in See also:Paris at the Ecole See also:des Chartes and the Ecole des langues orientales, and began to contribute to obscure Parisian reviews. After four years spent in See also:Africa he returned to Paris in 1885, and founded in 1886 a weekly See also:review, La See also:Vogue, in which many of his See also:early poems appeared. In the autumn of the same See also:year he founded, with See also:Jean See also:Moreas and See also:Paul See also:Adam, a See also:short-lived periodical, Le Symboliste, in which they preached the nebulous poetic See also:doctrine of Stephane See also:Mallarme; and in 1888 he became one of the editors of the Revue independante. He contributed See also:poetry and See also:criticism to the French and Belgian reviews favour-able to the extreme symbolists, and, with Catulle Mendes,he founded at the Odeon, the See also:Theatre See also:Antoine and the Theatre Sarah See also:Bernhardt, matinees for the See also:production of the plays of the younger poets. He claimed to be the earliest writer of the vers Libre, and explained his methods and the See also:history of the See also:movement in a See also:preface to his Premiers poemes (1897). Later books are Le Livre d'images (1897); See also:Les Fleurs de la See also:passion (1900); some novels; and a valuable contribution to the history of See also:modern French See also:verse in Symbolistes et decadents (1902).

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