Marzials, Theo (M)

Surname: Marzials
Forename(s): Théophile-Jules-Henri
b. 20 December 1850. d. 2 February 1920. Nationality: French. VIAF.
Poet, composer, and singer. Collaborated on the opera Esmerelda (1883), based on Victor Hugo’s Notre Dame de Paris. Friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Alluded to homosexual relationships with men in letters to Edmund Gosse, with whom he may have also had a homosexual relationship. Author of Passionate Dowsabella, a Pastoral (1872). Biographical Information: DLB; John M. Munro, Selected Poems of Theo. Marzials (American University of Beirut, 1974). (DD, BGL)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 5
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Out in the Street 1869-06 The Argosy Poet 16250
How I Read Petrarch 1870-03-12 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 7243
The Sun of My Songs 1871-03 The Dark Blue Poet 162
To a Bunch of Lilac 1894-10 The Yellow Book Poet 783
A Fragment 1895-10 The Yellow Book Poet 990