In France.

In France, the "modern" generation of poets--like Baudelaire, Mallarme and Rimbaud--had the ambition to give birth to a of recent origin conception of the sacred. Until then, the sacred was the experience of a transcendence whose inscrutable profundity language had to strive to reach. With poetic modernity, it is the immanence of poetic form that contains and distills the sacral dimension. The piece of poetry is henceforth sacred because it is covert locked up on itself and from the inside. It is hidden in the etymological meaning of the word secretus: it is the mystery. Dreaming language, language of dream, dissipated tongue--these are the ...