I lived from 1870-1925. I was from France, and am in the European category.
Pierre Lou˙s was the pseudonym of Pierre Louis. He was born in 1870 in Belgium, but moved to Paris in order to study and remained in France for the whole of his adult life.
As a writer, he belonged to the Parnassian and Symbolist school and began writing erotic texts from the age of eighteen. An early collection of his poems Astarte appeared in 1891 in La Conque, a review that he had helped to found. He also found success as a novelist. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, was, at the time, the best-selling work by a living French writer. It was turned into an opera in 1906.
Lou˙s had also won notoriety prior to this in 1894 for Chansons de Bilitis
- a collection of prose poems which he managed top convince experts were translated from Greek originals, when in fact they were entirely his own creation. Lou˙s' friend Clive Debussy was so impressed by the sensuality of the pieces that he composed an accompaniment to some of them.
Lou˙s is remembered as a writer who: "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". He died in 1925.
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As a writer, he belonged to the Parnassian and Symbolist school and began writing erotic texts from the age of eighteen. An early collection of his poems Astarte appeared in 1891 in La Conque, a review that he had helped to found. He also found success as a novelist. Aphrodite (1896), a novel depicting courtesan life in ancient Alexandria, was, at the time, the best-selling work by a living French writer. It was turned into an opera in 1906.
Lou˙s had also won notoriety prior to this in 1894 for Chansons de Bilitis
- a collection of prose poems which he managed top convince experts were translated from Greek originals, when in fact they were entirely his own creation. Lou˙s' friend Clive Debussy was so impressed by the sensuality of the pieces that he composed an accompaniment to some of them.
Lou˙s is remembered as a writer who: "expressed pagan sensuality with stylistic perfection". He died in 1925.
Biography Information:
www3.sympatico.ca
www.1upinfo.com
www.amzon.com
My poetry
- Carefully she opened her tunic with one
hand and offered me her warm soft breasts as14 lines - Alas! if I think of her, my throat becomes
dry, my hand falls back, my breasts harden and13 lines - Under the sheet of transparent wool we
slipped, she and I. Even our heads were sunk13 lines, 1 comment - The storm lasted all night. Selenis, with her lovely
hair, came to spin with me. She stayed for fear of14 lines - I remember . . . (at what hour of the day
do I not have her in my sight?)--I remember15 lines
