1840.
The poems of Henri Cazalis, who has preferred to give his later works
to the public under the nom de plume Jean Lahor, have the grave
pessimism of Leconte de Lisle, but with more of buddhistic
resignation. They are often sustained by a high moral fortitude, and
though they are clothed in a less rich and brilliant garment than
the poems of Leconte de Lisle, they have a charm of their own,
"_inquiétant et pénétrant_," says Paul Bourget, "_comme celui des
tableaux de Burne Jones et de la musique tzigane, des romans de
Tolstoi et des_ lieder _de Heine_."
Works: _Vita tristis_, 1865 (under the pseudonym Jean Caselli;)
_Mélancholia_, 1866; _le Livre du néant_, 1872; _l'Illusion_, 1875;
the preceding were collected in one volume and published under the
name Jean Lahor and with the title _l'Illusion_, 1888; under the
same name, _le Cantique des cantiques_, a translation of the Song of
Solomon, 1885; _les Quatrains d'Al-Ghazali_, 1896.
For reference; J. Lemaître, _les Contemporains_, vol. iv.