Tag: Maurice Maeterlinck

Villiers's universe is frozen and delusional, even more so than Sade's: it's a world haunted by gothic but modernized ghosts, crossed by lightning whims of style. Defined by Verlaine "un poète absolu", revered by Mallarmé and placed by Baudelaire on the same level as Poe, Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was one of the most iconic characters of French decadence and of the whole of the nineteenth century.