Poetry was omnipresent in France at the end of the nineteenth century–or, at least, verse was proliferating (an equivalent phenomenon, but also a very different one). The rapid development of newspapers and periodicals after 1870 accelerated both this proliferation and the resulting banalization. The article examines the emergence, with the symbolists, of a poetic language supposedly situated outside social discourse, doxa, and civic values. To describe it, we must start from the new conditions of the impossibility of poetic language.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques