In 1885 he began to contribute to the Parisian reviews, and his verses were published by most of the French and Belgian periodicals favorable to the symbolist writers.

Having begun as a Parnassian, he retained the classical tradition, though he adopted some of the innovations of Jean Moréas and Gustave Kahn.

His vaguely suggestive style shows the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom he was an assiduous disciple.

[1] He was a contributor to Le Visage de l'Italie, a 1929 book about Italy prefaced by Benito Mussolini.

[2] La Canne de jaspe and Histoires Incertaines (1919) were translated in 2012 by Brian Stableford under the title A Surfeit of Mirrors ISBN 978-1-61227-076-0 Henri de Régnier died in 1936 at age 71 and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.