Henri Coulette (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Henri Coulette (kew-LEHT), whose witty, inventive poetry found early success, suffered from a publishing accident that destroyed most copies of his second book and from the drift of critical fashion away from poems of irony and elegance. Although he completed his third collection, And Come to Closure, just before his death, it was not published on its own but as part of the posthumous Collected Poems of Henri Coulette. During this long period of relative neglect Coulette came to resemble the secret agents of his first book, enduring “an unofficial joy,/ A private...
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