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Comte de Lautréamont

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Comte de Lautréamont

Comte de Lautréamont
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Born: April 4, 1846
Died: November 24, 1870 (aged 24)
Bio: Comte de Lautréamont was the pseudonym of Isidore-Lucien Ducasse, a French poet born in Uruguay. His only works, Les Chants de Maldoror and Poésies, had a major influence on modern literature, particularly on the Surrealists and the Situationists.
Known for:
  1. Les Chants de Maldoror
  2. Maldoror and Poems
  3. Poésies and complete miscellanea
  4. Oeuvres complètes

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