Henri Cazalis (French::; 9 March 1840, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise – 1 July 1909, Geneva) was a French physician who was a symbolist poet and man of letters and wrote under the pseudonyms of Jean Caselli and Jean Lahor.

His works include:

• Chants populaires de l'Italie (1865)
• Vita tristis, Reveries fantastiques, Romances sans musique (1865)
• Melancholia (1868)
• Le Livre du néant (1872)
• Henry Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre (1872)
• L'Illusion (1875-1893)
• Cantique des cantiques (1885)
• Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali (1896)
• William Morris (1897).

The author of the Livre du néant had a predilection for gloomy subjects and especially for pictures of death. His oriental habits of thought earned for him the *le of the Hindou du Parn*e contemporain (cf. Le Parn*e contemporain).

Some of his poems have been set to music by Camille Saint-Saëns, Henri Duparc, Charles Bordes, Ernest Chausson, Reynaldo Hahn, Edouard Trémisot and Paul Paray.

He also maintained a correspondence of interest with the poet Stéphane Mallarmé from 1862 to 1871.

See a notice by Paul Bourget in Anthologie des poétes fr. du XIXieme siècle (1887-1888); Jules Lemaître, Les Contemporains (1889); Émile *uet in the Revue bleue (October 1893). George Santayana's Poetry and Religion (1900) has an essay on his concept of La gloire du néant.

Contents

• 1 Danse Macabre
• 2 Notes
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Danse Macabre

Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre (Dance of Death) is based on this poem written by Henri Cazalis.

 Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence,  Striking with his heel a tomb,  Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,  Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.  The winter wind blows and the night is dark;  Moans are heard in the linden-trees.  Through the gloom, white skeletons p*,  Running and leaping in their shrouds.  Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking.  The bones of the dancers are heard to crack-  But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,  They push forward, they fly; the * has crowed.

Notes

References

• :This article:incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain::Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cazalis, Henri". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th:ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Works by or about Henri Cazalis at Internet Archive
• Works by or about Jean Lahor at Internet Archive