Le Parnasse contemporain
Le Parnasse contemporain (Eng. "The contemporary Parnassus ") is a three-volume anthology of poems that appeared in 1866, 1871 and 1876 by the Parisian publisher Alphonse Lemerre . The title gave the name to the literary movement of the Parnassians , who found a stage for their work here.
The anthology (Vol. I was initially published in 18 consecutive issues) contains works by a total of 99 authors, including Charles Leconte de Lisle , Théodore de Banville , José-Maria de Heredia , Théophile Gautier , Catulle Mendès , Charles Baudelaire , Sully Prudhomme , Stéphane Mallarmé , François Coppée , Charles Cros , Léon Dierx , Louis Ménard , Paul Verlaine , Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam and Anatole France .
Le Parnasse contemporain was characterized by an innovative understanding of literature; the first volume contained in particular poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal . Lemerre and his editor Anatole France, however, did not contribute to the further lyrical development towards symbolism and, for example, rejected Mallarmé's L'Après-midi d'un faune for the volume of 1876.
