The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844 1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.
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Paul Verlaine, author of works including Romance sans paroles and Sagesse, was elected France’s Prince of Poets” by his peers in 1894.
The preface and notes afford the soundest and most suggestive brief critique of Verlaines work that I know of in English. -- Saturday Review
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