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From my disgust, my boredom, my distress. So I’m alone now, here, sad and alone, Sad and desperate, chilled as are the old, Poor as an orphan with no elder sister. O for a woman in love, tender and mild, Sweet, pensive, dark, and always astonished, Who now and then kisses your brow like a child.
Paul-Marie Verlaine (/ vɛərˈlɛn / 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. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
In the sacred blood of the dead, where feet slither, Paddled tardy saviours, with nasal voices, those. Of new Rome, a new King, the accomplice ever. – Dead youths, who represent our ancient woes, Alas we even envy, we your sons, we La France, The grief that behind your humble hearses flowed.
Il vit toujours chez ses parents et, après le décès du père en décembre 1865, chez sa mère avec laquelle il entretiendra une relation de proximité et de violence toute sa vie. Paul Verlaine est aussi très proche de sa chère cousine Élisa, orpheline recueillie dès 1836 [15] et élevée par les Verlaine avec leur fils : il souhaitait ...
Crowned “Prince of Poets” in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s poetry available in English translation.
Under the influence of Rimbaud, Verlaine discovered how the power of words enables the poet “changer la vie” (to change life). The poems written while Verlaine and Rimbaud were in Belgium reveal the poets’ amorous adventures on the road.
6 paź 2020 · The principal justifications for this new collection of translations from Paul Verlaine are threefold: its range — 192 poems — is significantly larger than that of previous anthologies; its organization, according to the chronological and thematic order of the poems’ composition, avoids the confusions that too readily occur when dates of ...
