Abstract: This paper verifies Nerval’s authority on « Poètes décriés (Ier article) », already proved for the « IIe article » in Revue Nerval, n° 4, and it gives an edition of this text. It examines intertextual links between Ronsard and Les Chimères and gives a sketch of Nerval’s poetic of short poems : conception of sonnet as fragment, difference between sonnet and odelette, reappraisal of « poésie légère ».
