He died at the age of 29, possibly from tuberculosis, a childless bachelor with no work, entrenched in his old Breton manor, misunderstood by his contemporaries, and his innovative poetry was not recognised until well after his death.

Difficulties in adapting to the harsh discipline of the college's noble débris[2] (distinguished relics, i.e., teachers) gradually developed those characteristics of anarchic disdain and sarcasm which were to give much of his verse their distinctive voice.

Corbière's only published verse in his lifetime appeared in Les amours jaunes, 1873, a volume that went almost unnoticed until Paul Verlaine included him in his gallery of poètes maudits (accursed poets).

[3] Close-packed, linked to the ocean and his Breton roots, and tinged with disdain for Romantic sentimentalism,[4] his work is also characterised by its idiomatic play and exceptional modernity.

It is now on open and free access: https://new-pum.univ-tlse2.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Les_amours_jaunes.pdf Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at fr:Tristan Corbière; see its history for attribution.