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See also: born at See also: Lille on the 4th of See also: April 1858
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He was educated at the lycee of that See also: town, and on leaving it entered a See also: bank as a clerk
.
.He enjoyed no See also: literary associations, and his talent See also: developed slowly in solitude
.
About 1884 See also: Samain went to See also: Paris, having
obtained a clerkship in the Prefecture de la See also: Seine, which he held for most of his See also: life
.
He presently began to send poems to the Mercure de See also: France, and these attracted See also: attention
.
In 1893 he allowed a friend to See also: print his earliest See also: volume of poems, Au Jardin de l'inJante, in a very small edition
.
This led to the sudden recognition of his talent, and to applause from critics of widely different See also: schools
.
In 1897 this See also: book was reprinted in a more popular See also: form, with the addition of a section entitled L'Urne penchee
.
Samain's second volume, Aux }lanes du See also: vase, appeared in 1898
.
His See also: health began to fail and he withdrew to the country, where he died, in the neighbourhood of the See also: village of Magny-See also: les-Hameaux, on the 18th of See also: August 1900
.
A third volume of his poems, Le Chariot d'or, appeared after his See also: death, with a lyrical drama, Polypheme (1901), which was produced at the Theatre de l'cEuvre in 1904
.
The fame of Samain rapidly advanced when he was dead, and the general public awakened to the fact that this isolated writer was a poet of rare originality
.
He cultivated a delicate, languid beauty of imagery and an exquisite sense of verbal melody without attempting any revolution inSee also: prosody or identifying himself with any theory
.
Samain had no See also: great range of talent, nor was he ambitious of many effects
.
Samain's natural life was patiently spent in squalid conditions; he escaped from them into an imaginative See also: world of the most exquisite refinement
.
He has been compared to See also: Watteau and Schumann; in his own See also: art he See also: bore some resemblance to See also: Charles Baudelaire, and to the
See also: English poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy
.
See also R
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See also: Doumic, Trois Poems," in the Revue See also: des deux mondes (Oct
.
19o0); L
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Bocquet, See also: Albert Samain, sa See also: vie, son teuvre (1905); and E
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W
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Gosse, French Profiles (1905)
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