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Paul Verlaine’s title is intended both seriously (the poem is, in fact, a guide to poetic composition) and ironically (the poem incites aspiring poets to break the rules).
Paul Marie Verlaine was born in Metz, France, on March 30, 1844, the only child of Captain Nicolas-Auguste Verlaine and Elisa Dehée Verlaine. The family moved often during Verlaine’s first ...
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SOURCE: An introduction to Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, translated by Enid Rhodes Peschel, Ohio University Press, 1981, pp. 1-65. [In the following ...
“Autumn Song” is the most famous poem from the collection of verse known as Poèmes saturniens (Saturnian poems), published when Paul Verlaine was only twenty-two years old. Like most of the ...
Go round to the sound of the merry drums. —Translated by Bernhard Frank 1. “Wooden Steeds” (“Chevaux de Bois”) was inspired by the St. Gilles fair in Brussels when Verlaine, accompanied ...
In “Pantomime,” the second of Paul Verlaine's Fêtes galantes (1869), we are shown four sharply etched vignettes of stock characters from the commedia dell'arte, each performing in a miniature ...
The young Verlaine was associated with the Parnassiens (c. the 1860’s), a group of poets who celebrated art for art’s sake but who also insisted upon an impassive or objective precision they ...
Analysis. Verlaine’s reputation is not as high as it once was, and this is largely because his poetry lacks the depth of that of his greatest contemporaries. Poets such as Charles Baudelaire and ...
Verlaine’s poetry is extremely mellifluous. It is not surprising that “Moonlight” has been set to music by Claude Debussy (in 1881), Gabriel Fauré (1887), and Gustave Charpentier (1896).