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[[File:Jean Lahor (Henri Cazalis).jpg|thumb|200px|Henri Cazalis]]<br />
'''Henri Cazalis''' ({{IPA|fr|kazalis|lang}}; 9 March 1840, [[Cormeilles-en-Parisis]], [[Val-d'Oise]] – 1 July 1909, [[Geneva]]) was a French [[physician]] who was a [[Symbolism (movement)|symbolist]] [[poet]] and man of letters and wrote under the [[pen name|pseudonyms]] of '''Jean Caselli''' and '''Jean Lahor'''.<br />
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His works include:<br />
*{{lang|fr|Chants populaires de l'Italie}} (1865)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Vita tristis. Rêveries fantasques. Romances sans musique dans le mode mineur}} (1865)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Melancholia}} (1868)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Le Livre du néant}} (1872)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Henry Regnault, sa vie et son œuvre}} (1872)<br />
*{{lang|fr|L'Illusion}} (1875-1893)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Cantique des cantiques}} (1885)<br />
*{{lang|fr|Les Quatrains d'Al-Gazali}} (1896)<br />
*{{lang|fr|[[William Morris]]}} (1897).<br />
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The author of the {{lang|fr|Livre du néant}} had a predilection for gloomy subjects and especially for pictures of death. His oriental habits of thought earned for him the title of the {{lang|fr|Hindou du Parnasse contemporain}} (cf. {{lang|fr|[[Le Parnasse contemporain]]}}).<br />
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Some of his poems have been set to music by [[Camille Saint-Saëns]], [[Henri Duparc (composer)|Henri Duparc]], [[Charles Bordes]], [[Ernest Chausson]], [[Reynaldo Hahn]], [[Edouard Trémisot]], [[Dagmar de Corval Rybner]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Office |first=Library of Congress Copyright |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AEohAQAAIAAJ&dq=dagmar+rybner&pg=PA450 |title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical Compositions. Part 3 |date=1922 |publisher=Library of Congress. |pages=450 |language=en}}</ref> and [[Paul Paray]].<br />
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He also maintained a correspondence of interest with the poet [[Stéphane Mallarmé]] from 1862 to 1871.<br />
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See a notice by [[Paul Charles Joseph Bourget|Paul Bourget]] in {{lang|fr|Anthologie des poétes fr. du XIXieme siècle}} (1887–1888); [[Jules Lemaître]], {{lang|fr|Les Contemporains}} (1889); [[Émile Faguet]] in the {{lang|fr|Revue bleue}} (October 1893). [[George Santayana]]'s ''Poetry and Religion'' (1900) has an essay on his concept of {{lang|fr|La gloire du néant}}.<br />
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=={{lang|fr|Danse macabre}}==<br />
[[Camille Saint-Saëns|Saint-Saëns]]' {{lang|fr|[[Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)|Danse macabre]]}} ('Dance of Death') is based on this poem written by Henri Cazalis.<br />
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{{poem quote|Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence,<br />
Striking with his heel a tomb,<br />
Death at midnight plays a dance-tune,<br />
Zig, zig, zig, on his violin.<br />
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The winter wind blows and the night is dark;<br />
Moans are heard in the linden-trees.<br />
Through the gloom, white skeletons pass,<br />
Running and leaping in their shrouds.<br />
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Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking;<br />
The bones of the dancers are heard to crack—<br />
But hist! of a sudden they quit the round,<br />
They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed!<ref>{{cite book | section=Danse Macabre | title=The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 1925–1926 Season Programs | section-url=https://archive.org/details/sfs-1925-1926-v-015/page/166 | page=166 }}</ref>}}<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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==References==<br />
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Cazalis, Henri}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Henri Cazalis}}<br />
* {{Internet Archive author |name=Jean Lahor}}<br />
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