Tailhade, Laurent

(1854-1919)

   writer

   Born in Tarbes, Laurent Tailhade, who became a friend of paul verlaine and other symbolists, began his writing career with a collection Le Jardin des rèves (1880), done in the Parnassian style, then wrote Vitraux (1892), and finally Poèmes élégiaques (1907). Au pays du muffle (1891) followed by À travers les groins (1899) revealed a virulent poet who put his satirical verve in the service of the anarchistic ideals that he held. One can find "Aristophanian" tendencies in his poetry and his writings (Imbéciles et Gredins, 1900) and in the articles that he wrote for Libertaire and L'Aurore. Tail-hade also did translations of Plautius and Petronius.