Léon Deubel, une victime de sa poésie ?

The Belfort poet Léon Deubel, born in 1879, died at the age of 34. He had the potential to become a great poet, but a misunderstanding between him and his poetry – or rather, a hypertrophy of his poetic ideal at a time when formal rigour was no longer an imperative – meant his talent was unable to mature fully. This poet influenced by Laforgue, Verlaine, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé, as well as by Albert Samain, Jean Moréas, and English poetry, deserves our attention for the many reasons which are developed in the course of these pages.