Pastels in Prose

by Stuart Merrill

Excerpt from Pastels in Prose

Special acknowledgments are due to MM. Ephraim Mikhael, Pierre Quillard, and Achille Delaroche for the prose poems em titled, respectively, Solitude, T he Broth ers-at-arms, and The Conquering Dream, which were written for this volume; to Mme. Emile Hennequin for the six prose poems, by her late husband, selected by her for the translator from among hitherto unpublished manuscripts; and to MM. Catulle Mendes and Stéphane Mallarme for their courtesy in enabling the translator to include in this collection versions of prose poems from the final proof-sheets of their new volumes.

Genres: Poetry

287 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

About the author

Stuart Fitzrandolph Merrill was an American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language. He belonged to the Symbolist school. His principal books of poetry were Les Gammes (1887), Les Fastes (1891), and Petits Poèmes d'Automne (1895).

He died in Versaille, France.