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RE: ADSactly Literature: Jules Laforgue - The Irruption of Irony in Modern Poetry (Part I)
I was not familiar with Laforge's work. Thanks for bringing it up to our attention. A european poet, influenced by Whitman and who would eventually influence the likes of Eliot or Pound is worth studying.
Laforgue's work is unfortunately little known, despite its relevance to modern poetry, even in Spanish-American literature, as in the poets Leopoldo Lugones and Julio Herrera and Reissig. Scholars note his major influence on Eliot, and highlight his poem, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," for example. Pound came to have expressions about Laforgue such as: "He is an incomparable artist". Thank you for your reading, @hlezama.