Amours et Priapées

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Friend of Vigny and one of Baudelaire's first disciples. Henri Cantel (1825-1878) is the author of a masterpiece of erotic poetry, reissued for the first time in a century and a half. Without the raw genius of a Pierre Louÿs, it is part of a great tradition of erotic poetry to which authors as diverse as Jean de La Fontaine or Théophile Gautier have given their letters of nobility. In these seventy poems, many of which are sonnets, Cantel declines the two themes of its title, often unhappy loves, with very Baudelairean romantic accents, and erotic poems which, although presented as priapic, often represent scenes lesbians.

Private Case entry

328. CANTEL, (Henri). Amours et Priapées. Lampsaque: 1869. (Brussels, Poulet Malassis.) 8vo. pp. 144. Engraved frontispiece, on China, by Rops. Out of sequence of 150 copies on vergé. P.C. 30.d.11.

Of Cantel's work, H. S. Ashbee says: "These sonnets are of great merit, skilful in construction, terse, to the point, yet rich in imagery & allusion, & musical in versification, mostly very erotic, all equally meritorious in a literary point of view." (Ms note in Ashbee's own copy of the second edition of Gay's Bibliographie, which is preserved in the BL.)

French review

Ami de Vigny et l'un des premiers disciples de Baudelaire, Henri Cantel (1825-1878), est l'auteur d'un chef-d'œuvre de la poésie érotique, réédité pour la première fois depuis un siècle et demi. Sans le génie cru d'un Pierre Louÿs, il s'inscrit dans une grande tradition de la poésie érotique à laquelle des auteurs aussi divers que Jean de La Fontaine ou Théophile Gautier ont donné leurs lettres de noblesse. Dans ces soixante-dix poèmes, dont bon nombre sont des sonnets, Cantel décline les deux thématiques de son titre, des amours souvent malheureuses, aux accents romantiques très baudelairiens, et des poèmes érotiques qui, bien que présentés comme priapiques, représentent souvent des scènes lesbiennes.


English review

Vigny friend and one of the first disciples of Baudelaire, Henry Cantel (1825-1878), is the author of a masterpiece of erotic poetry, reissued for the first time in a century and a half. Without the raw genius of Pierre Louÿs, it is part of a great tradition of erotic poetry which authors as diverse as Jean de La Fontaine or Theophile Gautier gave their credentials. In those seventy poems, many of which are sonnets, Cantel declines the two themes of his title, often unhappy love, with romantic accents very Baudelaire, and erotic poems which, though presented as priapic often depict scenes lesbians.

Format: 10.5x15
Number of pages: 80 pages -
isbn: 9782844183033
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