The contemporary Parnassus
The contemporary Parnassus is composed of three collective volumes of poetry, published in 1866, 1871 and 1876 by the editor Alphonse Lemerre, in which took part a hundred poets, in particular: Leconte de Lisle, Theodore de Banville, Heredia, Gautier, Catulle Mendès, Baudelaire, Sully Prudhomme, Mallarmé, François Coppée, Charles Cros, Leon Dierx, Louis Ménard, Verlaine, Villiers of Isle-Adam and Anatole France.
The literary movement “parnassien” owes him its name.
Innovative at its beginnings (the first volume contains the Épaves and Nouvelles Flowers of the evil of Baudelaire, as well as the first works of Mallarmé and Verlaine…), the anthology initiated Arthur Rimbaud with the poetry of its time, but will reject later the precursors of the symbolism (Cros, Nouveau…).
Characteristics of the collections
List of the 99 poets
The preceding table indicates that 99 poets contributed to the
contemporary Parnassus . These poets are the following, alphabetically and with the indication, for each one, of the number of poems appearing in the three collections (1866, 1871,1876):
Louise Ackermann (0-0-1); Jean Aicard (0-5-1); Armand d' Artois (0-0-2); Joseph Autran (0-0-1); Theodore de Banville (2-12-24); Auguste Barbier (0-7-0); Charles Baudelaire (16-0-0); Emile Bergerat (0-0-1); Guy de Binos (0-0-2); A.M. Blanchecotte (0-1-2); Emile Blémont (0-0-1); Robert de Bonnières (0-0-4); Paul Le Bourget (0-0-4); Melanie Bourotte (0-0-1); Philoxène Boyer (6-0-0); Breton Jules (0-0-2); Nina Callias (0-2-0); Henri Cazalis (8-2-6); Auguste Châtillon (1-0-0); Leon Cladel (0-1-3); Louise Collet (0-2-4); François Coppée (5-1-6); Charles Coran (4-3-0); Alexandre Cosnard (0-2-0); Charles Cros (0-2-0); Camille Delthil (0-0-2); Antoni Deschamps (8-1-0); Emile Deschamps (8-3-0); Leon Dierx (7-5-8); Alcide Dusolier (0-0-2); Alfred of Essarts (0-2-0); Emmanuel Essarts (4-1-2); F. Fertiault (3-0-0); Jules Forni (5-0-0); B. of Fourcaud (0-0-4); Anatole France (0-2-1); Théophile Gautier (6-4-0); Raoul Gineste (0-0-2); Albert Glatigny (0-4-0); Leon Grandet (0-2-0); CH. Grandmougin (0-0-2); Edouard Attic (0-1-1); (Guy de Binos: to see Binos); Isabelle Guyon (0-0-1); Jose María de Heredia (6-1-25); Ernest d' Hervilly (0-3-7); Arsene Houssaye (11-0-0); Auguste Lacaussade (0-0-3); Georges Lafenestre (0-5-1); Victor de Laprade (0-1-2); Charles-Marie-Rene Leconte de Lisle (10-1-1); Eugene Lefébure (6-1-0); Andre Lemoyne (4-3-1); Edmond Lepelletier (2-0-0); Robert Luzarche (4-2-0); Stephan Mallarmé (11-1-0); Manual Eugene (0-4-4); Gabriel Marc (0-4-1); Paul Marrot (0-0-1); Alexis Martin (1-0-0); Louis Ménard (6-7-0); Catulle Mendès (5-7-1); Albert Mérat (8-7-4); Achilles Millien (0-0-1); Marc Monnier (0-0-4); Paul de Musset (0-0-1); Myrten (0-0-1); Mrs. Auguste Penquer (0-1-0); Laurent Pichat (0-1-0); Alexandre Piédagnel (2-0-0); Amédée Pigeon (0-0-5); Frederic Plessis (0-4-12); Claudius Popelin (0-8-2); Gustave Pradelle (0-4-0); Louis Ratisbon (0-0-2); Saint-Cyr military school de Rayssac (0-0-5); Armand Renaud (4-1-1); Henri Rey (0-1-0); Louis-Xavier de Ricard (10-2-1); NR. Richardot (0-0-1); Gustave Ringal (0-0-4); C. Robinot-Bertrand (0-2-0); Maurice Rollinat (0-0-1); Holy-Beuve (0-1-0); Louis Rooms (0-3-1); Louisa Siefert (0-6-6); Armand Silvestre (0-3-6); Joséphin Soulary (0-2-6); Sully Prudhomme (4-5-1); Maurice Talmeyr (0-0-1); Francis Shard (1-0-0); Andre Theuriet (0-2-1); Auguste Vacquerie (3-0-0); Antony Valabrègue (0-1-6); Leon Valade (5-4-3); Paul Verlaine (8-5-0); Gabriel Vicar (0-0-7); Eugene Villemin (1-0-0); Auguste Villiers of Isle-Adam (3-1-0); Henry Winter (2-0-0).
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