Eaux fortes paul verlaine biography

Paul Verlaine was a French artist who was born in 1844.

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Verlaine: A Study in Parallels 9781442652545

Table of contents :
Preface
Contents
1. The child and the family
2. The young poet/ Poèmes saturniens / Fêtes galantes
3. Mathilde Mauté/ La Bonne Chanson
4. Rimbaud/ The end of life in the rue Nicolet
6. Prison/ The religious crisis/ Cellulairement
7. Obscure years/ Sagesse in progress
8. Lucien Letinois/ Sagesse completed/ Disorder and collapse
9. La tin Quarter legend/ Last years, last works
10. Paul Verlaine
Appendix. The case of Georges Verlaine
Bibliography
Index

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VERLAINE

A Study in Parallels The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic and sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of th

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Paul Verlaine

Selected Poems in Translation

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Resignation

(Poèmes Saturniens: Mélancholia I)

As a child, I dreamt of the Koh-i-Noor,

Persian and Papal richness, sumptuous,

Heliogabalus, Sardanapalus!

My desire conjured, where the gold roofs soar,

To music’s strains, where fragrances entice,

Endless harems, bodily paradise!

Calmer these days and yet no less ardent,

Knowing life, how one’s obliged to be,

I’m forced to curb such lovely folly,

And yet not yield to too great an extent.

So be it, if greatness eludes intent,

Yet down with the nice, and the ordinary!

I always hated a woman merely pretty,

Rhyme that’s assonant, the friend who’s prudent!

‘Young Woman with Ibis’
Edgar Dega

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Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song, a monograph on the poet, with selections from his work

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Paul Verlaine, his absinthe-tinted song, a monograph on the poet, with selections from his work is a work bygd Ralph Fletcher Seymour.

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RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR

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RALPH FLETCHER SEYMOUR

TO THE MEMORY

OF ONE LONG SINCE ASLEEP

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JUDGE JONATHAN C. APPLEGATE

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Paul Verlaine 3

POEMS SATURNINE

To Eugene Carriere 43

MELANCHOLIA

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