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Verlaine, Paul - pōl vĕrlĕnˈ, 1844–96, French poet. He gained some notice with the Parnassian poetry of Poèmes saturniens (1866) and Fêtes galantes (1869) and became a figure in the bohemian literary world of Paris. Verlaine's turbulent marriage broke up as a result of his liaison with his young protégé, Arthur Rimbaud. The two poets


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    Verlaine: Fool of God » Read Now

    by Lawrence Hanson, Elisabeth Hanson. 402 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Almost all biographies of Paul Verlaine have praised the work and condemned...causes in different people. In Paul Verlaine, child, boy and man, it came explicably...so...
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    Selected Poems » Read Now

    by Paul L. Verlaine, Martin H. Sorrell. 317 pgs.

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    Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry...
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    Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme » Read Now

    by A. M. Blackmore, E. H. Blackmore. 336 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and...
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    Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Their Season in Hell, in New England Review » Read Now

    by Graham Robb. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...mahogany panel: "Portrait of the Frenchman Arthur Rimbaud, wounded after drinking by his close friend, the French poet Paul Verlaine. From life by Jef Rosman." Flattened by...
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    The Ghosts of Modernity (Chap. Five "Verlaine and Mallarme between the Angels and the Ghosts of Language") » Read Now

    by Jean-Michel P. Rebate. 260 pgs.

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    Jean-Michel Rabate, the eminent French Joycean, combines psychoanalytical and philosophical concepts in rereading the history of modernity to give a more precise meaning to the term modernism. Rabate focuses throughout on a single theme, the ghostly nature of modernity. In writing a history of the...
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    Men and Memories: Recollections of William Rothenstein (Chap. XXI "The Last of Verlaine") » Read Now

    by William Rothenstein. 399 pgs.

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    ...from a litho graph 146 20. Edmond de Goncourt 1894 , from a lithograph 159 21. Paul Verlaine 1894 , from a pastel drawing in the collection of the Hon. Harold Nicolson 163...
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    Titans of Literature, from Homer to the Present ("Verlaine the Musician" begins on p. 352) » Read Now

    by Burton Rascoe. 496 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...to Alfred North Whitehead Introduction to Mathe matics , Paul de Kruif Microbe Hunters , H. L. Mencken On Women and...337 VICTOR HUGO THE ROMANTIC 344 VERLAINE THE MUSICIAN...
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    Verlaine's IL Pleure Dans Mon Coeur, 13, in Explicator » Read Now

    by Marie-Georgette Steisel. 3 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...DANS MON COEUR, 13 At first reading, line 13 of Paul Verlaine poem " Il pleure dans mon coeur " ( Ariettes Oubliees...a reflexive difficulty for the conscious mind. So...
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    The Critic's Alchemy: A Study of the Introduction of French Symbolism into England (Discussion of Paul Verlaine in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Ruth Zabriskie Temple. 345 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...supposed to have replied: "I see you have devined . . . that Renan was always my teacher; my teacher in the view he took of St. Paul and the Bible generally, though to me...
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    The Background of Modern French Poetry: Essays and Interviews (Chap. VI "The Vers Libere") » Read Now

    by P. Mansell Jones. 196 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...The Poetic Principle . Verlaine Art Poetique he derives from...opinion and experience of Paul Valery, who, from the earliest...arts, which closely resemble Verlaines...
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    Bottoms Up! A Pathologist's Essays on Medicine and the Humanities ("The Affair with Verlaine and its Consequences" begins on p. 236) » Read Now

    by William B. Ober. 340 pgs.

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    ...friend Dr. Michael S. Bruno to honor his father and mother. "Reubens Mandrakes: Infertility in the Bible" was given as the Paul Klemperer Memorial Lecture at Mount Sinai...
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    Cyclopedia of World Authors ("Paul Verlaine" begins on p. 1114) » Read Now

    by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Thomas Jefferson, 1812- 1826 , edited by Paul Wilstach, 1925; and Statesman and Friend...Association LVI 1941 , 266-279; David Paul, "The Mysterious Landscape, A Study...

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