The following are the links which I have been able to collect with with further information about Marie Krysinska. If these links are no longer operable, or if you have information about links that are not in this list, please let me know (last updated 7 May 2004).

Marie Krysinska's works

in French
Click on the title for information about the first critical edition of Krysinska's poetry:
Krysinska, Marie. Rythmes pittoresques. Ed. Seth Whidden. Exeter Textes littéraires 1. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2003.

Click here for the the Gallica site of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (http://gallica.bnf.fr), where you can see both Joies errantes and La Force du désir (just choose "Recherche" and then search for "Krysinska").

other texts of Krysinska's that are at Gallica include (sorry, direct links to individual texts in Gallica are down):

"La vie." L'ermitage 4.7 (July 1893): 29-30. A possible secondary source is: Roland de Marès, Rev. of Joies errantes, by Marie Krysinska.

texts from La plume. Possible texts are the following: "Horizons"; "Psychologie du costume et de la parure"; "Reprise (sonnet renversé)," "La chanson des cendres"; and "Vote au congrès des poètes qui élut Verlaine." Possible secondary materials are: Francisque Sarcey, "Chronique littéraire"; and Laurent Tailhade, "Causerie sur Paul Verlaine."

texts from La revue blanche. Possible texts are the following: "Le poème des couleurs," "Suite d'orchestre"; "Sketch book: Chanson d'automne; Retour à la ville; Fin d'hiver"; "Sketch-book: Eglise de campagne; Promenade; Chanson blanche"; "Sketch-book: Sur l'eau; Après l'orage; Fin du jour; Pluie d'automne"; "Sketch book: Sur les grèves"; and "Suite d'orchestre." (sorry, currently having trouble with this link, 25 Jan. 2002 - SW.)

texts from La revue indépendante. Possible texts are the following: "Le calvaire," "Effet de soir."; "I: Eve," "II: Hélène," "III: Magdelaine."; "Mariage de raison"; "Un voyage de noce," "Rancune."; "De la nouvelle école: A propos de l'article de M. Anatole France dans Le temps sur M. Jean Moréas."; and rev. of A se tordre, by Alphonse Allais, and Contes du chat noir, by Rodolphe Salis. A possible secondary source is: Jules Couturat, Rev. of Rythmes pittoresques, by Marie Krysinska.

other Krysinska-related texts at Gallica include:

Barre, André. Le symbolisme: essai historique sur le mouvement poétique en France de 1885 à 1900. Tome II. Paris: Jouve et Cie, 1911.

Bernard, Suzanne. Le poème en prose de Baudelaire jusqu'à nos jours. Paris: Nizet, 1959.

in translation
Click here for two translations of Marie Krysinska's writings in the volume Women Seeking Expression: Translations from the French from the Liverpool Online Series (ed. Rosemary Lloyd, 2000):

"On Rational Evolutions: Esthetics and Philology." Trans. Gretchen Schultz (originally the introduction to Intermèdes: Nouveaux rythmes pittoresques).

"Ingenuousness: An American Custom." Trans. Seth Whidden (originally published as "Ingénuité: Moeurs américaines" in La Revue bleue: Revue politique et littéraire 45.26 [28 June 1890]: 808-11).

 

Web pages devoted to Marie Krysinska

Click here for a page devoted to Marie Krysinska, one in the Nineteenth-Century French Women Poets series by Professor Adrianna Paliyenko of Colby College.

Click here for sketches by Georges Picard - Krysinska was the model for the following: Page 02: "16Esquisse.jpg" and "21Esquisse.jpg"; Page 03: "afemmes3big31.jpg", "afemmes2big2.jpg", and "acalk02.jpg"

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Goulesque, Florence R. J. Une femme poète symboliste: Marie Krysinska, la Calliope du Chat Noir. Paris: Champion, 2001.

Schultz, Gretchen. The Gendered Lyric: Subjectivity and Difference in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures 17. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1999.

Whidden, Seth, ed. "Marie Krysinska: Vie libre, vers libre." Rythmes pittoresques. by Marie Krysinska. Exeter Textes littéraires 1. Exeter: U of Exeter P, 2003. 1-19.