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Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to the poet's life and artwork. Paul-Marie Verlaine (/ v ɛər ˈ l ɛ n / vair-LEN; [1] French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
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Debussy, a lifelong admirer of Verlaine's poetry, had taken a copy of the collection with him when he went to study in Rome in 1885. [1] Although other composers, from Gabriel Fauré to Benjamin Britten set Verlaine's poetry, Debussy, according to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, was the first composer of any importance to do so. [2]
La Bonne Chanson is a collection of poems written by Paul Verlaine from the winter of 1869 to the spring of 1870. Twenty-one poems belong to this group, and are addressed to sixteen-year-old Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville, whom he married in the same year (1870).
Sagesse (lit. ' Wisdom ') is a volume of French poetry by Paul Verlaine. [1] First published in 1881 (see 1880), it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements, as well as inspiring many musical compositions.
The poetry of Paul Verlaine had a more profound influence on Claude Debussy's music than did Debussy's closest literary or musical acquaintances. [2] Debussy and Verlaine were both inspired by subtlety and nuance. Each man sought to innovate by using rhythm and tone color as the basis for a new form of a pre-existing art.
The collection was originally hand-written and distributed by Verlaine, himself. Hombres includes "The Sonnet to an Asshole" ("Le Sonnet du trou du cul"), an erotic poem co-written by Arthur Rimbaud in 1871. Hombres is the third and final collection of poetry that comprises Verlaine's Erotic Trilogy, after Les Amies and Femmes.
Encouraged in his literary ambitions by his wife, [21] who was also a writer, Nicolson published a biography of French poet Paul Verlaine in 1921, which was followed by studies of other literary figures such as Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, and Sainte-Beuve. In 1933, he wrote an account of the Paris Peace Conference Peacemaking 1919.