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"Voyelles" or "Vowels" is a sonnet in alexandrines by Arthur Rimbaud, [1] written in 1871 but first published in 1883. Its theme is the different characters of the vowels, which it associates with those of colours.
The Bibliothèque municipale de Douai, now known as Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore ( named after the Douai-born poet Marceline Desbordes-Valmore) is a library located in Douai, France. Founded in 1767, it was bombed on August 11, 1944. [1] The library reopened in 1955, in a new building designed by the architect Maurice Coasnes. [2]
The texts were reprinted in book form in October 1886 by Les publications de La Vogue under the title Les Illuminations proposed by the poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's former lover. In his preface, Verlaine explained that the title was based on the English word illuminations , in the sense of coloured plates, and a sub-title that Rimbaud had ...
LibriVox reading in French. Le Bateau ivre (The Drunken Boat) is a Symbolist poem written in the summer of 1871 by French poet Arthur Rimbaud, then aged sixteen.The poem, one-hundred lines long, with four alexandrines per each of its twenty-five quatrains, describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. [1]
Rimbaud began writing the poem in April 1873 during a visit to his family's farm in Roche, near Charleville on the French-Belgian border. According to Bertrand Mathieu, Rimbaud wrote the work in a dilapidated barn. [1]: p.1 In the following weeks, Rimbaud traveled with poet Paul Verlaine through Belgium and to London again. They had begun a ...
Marie Catherine Vitalie Rimbaud, born Cuif, was better known simply as Vitalie Rimbaud, and was the mother of the visionary poet Arthur Rimbaud. She was born on 10 March 1825 and died on 16 November 1907. She met Captain Frédéric Rimbaud (1814–1878), a French infantry officer, in October 1852 and married him the following February. [1]
The English College (French: College des Grands Anglais) was a Catholic seminary in Douai, France (also previously spelled Douay, and in English Doway), associated with the University of Douai. It was established in 1568, and was suppressed in 1793. It is known for a Bible translation referred to as the Douay–Rheims Bible. Of over 300 British ...
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