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Gustave Kahn (21 December 1859, in Metz – 5 September 1936, in Paris) was a French Symbolist poet and art critic. He was also active, via publishing and essay-writing, in defining Symbolism and distinguishing it from the Decadent Movement .
Gustave Kahn (born Dec. 21, 1859, Metz, France—died Sept. 5, 1936, Paris) was a French poet and literary theorist who claimed to be the inventor of vers libre (“free verse”). After study in Paris, Kahn spent four years in North Africa, returning to Paris in 1885.
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Gustave Kahn, né le 21 décembre 1859 à Metz et mort le 4 septembre 1936 à Paris, est un poète symboliste et critique d'art français. Il est connu sous les pseudonymes : Cabrun, M. H., Walter Linden, Pip et Hixe.
Theorist, critic, and historian of French Symbolism. Kahn studied at the école des Chartres, and the école des Langues Orientales, and began writing poetry in 1879. After serving in the French military from 1880-1884, he moved to Paris and joined the Parisian literary scene.
Gustave Kahn (1859-1936), prominent art critic and one of the founders of the Symbolist Movement, in 1894 published his first novel, The Mad King, which is here presented for the first time in English in an adept translation by Sue and Colin Boswell.
The Dying Lover. by Gustave Kahn. So long as the child preferred to me such and such a. player of the flute or singer to the zither, little I cared. that she loved such and such a player of the flute or. scratcher of the zither.
Gustave Kahn. born Metz, France: 21 December 1859. died Paris: 5 September 1936. works. Le Conte de l'Or et du Silence (Paris: Societé du Mercure de France, 1898) [first six chapters appeared 1896 La Societé Nouvelle: binding unknown/]
