Paul Verlaine (1844–1896)
Author of Poèmes saturniens
About the Author
The dissolute, erratic leader of the decadents and one of the early symbolists, Verlaine wrote 18 volumes of verse in alternating moods of sensuality and mysticism. He and the Poet Rimbaud, 10 years younger, wandered throughout Europe together, until their relationship ended when Verlaine shot his show more companion in Brussels in 1873 and was imprisoned for two years. Sagesse (1881), his collection of religious poems of great melodic and emotional beauty, is generally considered his finest volume. In his famous poem Art Poetique, Verlaine stressed the primary importance of musicality in poetry over description. Mallarme called the collection in which it appears, Jadis et Naguere (1884), "almost continuously a masterpiece . . . disturbing as a demon's work," and described Verlaine's skill as that of a guitarist. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Paul Verlaine
La Bonne Chanson Romances Sans Paroles Sagesse (French Edition) (1963) — Author — 68 copies, 1 review
Femmes e Hombres 12 copies
Oeuvres complètes de Paul Verlaine, Vol. 1 Poèmes Saturniens, Fêtes Galantes, Bonne chanson, Romances sans paroles, Sagesse, Jadis et naguère (2011) 10 copies
Poesie erotiche 7 copies
Biblio-sonnetten 7 copies
Paul Verlaine : Oeuvres complètes et annexes - Les 50 titres (Nouvelle édition enrichie) (2015) 6 copies
Bonheur 5 copies
Hombres e Algumas Mulheres 4 copies
Poésies. Poèmess saturniens : Fêtes galantes : La Bonne chanson : Romances sans paroles : Sagesse 3 copies
Poèmes 3 copies
La pioggia nel cuore 3 copies
Prokletí básníci 3 copies
Saggezza 2 copies
Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine 2 copies
Obras Prohibidas: Amigas Mujeres Hombres seguidas de Sonnet Du Trou Du Cul por Paul Verlaine y Arthur Rimbaud. (Spanish Edition) (1999) 2 copies
Verlaine et les poetes symbolistes 2 copies
Viagem à Holanda 2 copies
Amour 2 copies
Verlaine 2 copies
Chanson d'automne et autres poèmes (Enfance en Poésie - Nouvelle présentation) (French Edition) (2016) 2 copies
Obras poéticas antología 2 copies
Poèmes saturniens. Premiers vers. 2 copies
Poèmes Saturniens suivi de Fêtes Galantes par Paul VERLAINE et présenté par Léo Ferré (1972) 2 copies
Paul Verlainen runoja 2 copies
Die Gedichte des armen Lelian 2 copies
Verlaine Jadis et Naguere (1885) & Parallelement (1889) et Notes de Jacques Borel (1967 French Edition) (1967) 2 copies
Sagesse Liturgies Intimes 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 6 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 7 1 copy
Recueils de jeunesse : Poèmes saturniens - Les Amies - Fêtes galantes - la Bonne Chanson (French Edition) (2018) 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 5 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 1 1 copy
Má vězení 1 copy
Oeuvre Poétique tome 2 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 3 1 copy
Oeuvre poétique tome 4 1 copy
Élégies 1 copy
MAESTRI SAGGEZZA 1 copy
poemes 1 copy
Poésies choisies 1 copy
Poesia completa I y II 1 copy
Obra poética completa 2 1 copy
Poemas Religiosos 1 copy
Poesia para Amantes 1 copy
Romances sans paroles - dédicaces - epigrammes. texte établi et annoté par yves-gérard le dantec (1940) 1 copy
Paul Verlaine Volume 1 1 copy
Poemas 1 copy
Obras Completas 1 copy
Fêtes galantes. Romances sans paroles précédé de Poèmes saturniens: PRÉCÉDÉ DE POÈMES SATURNIENS (2011) 1 copy
Confesiones 1 copy
Recueils de jeunesse 1 copy
Œuvres complètes 1 copy
La buena canción 1 copy
Poesies choisies notice biographique litteraire et notes explicatives par roger lefevre (1956) 1 copy
Obras poéticas 1 copy
Biblio-sonetos 1 copy
Paul Verlaine Poésies 1 copy
Elegje 1 copy
Versuri 1 copy
Para ser caluniado 1 copy
Selected poems 1 copy
Poesias Escolhidas 1 copy
La trilogia erotica 1 copy
Sus mejores versos 1 copy
Oeuvres poétiques 1 copy
L'amour et le bonheur 1 copy
Sagesse (numéroté 436/2000) 1 copy
Selected Poems. Trans. 1 copy
Lebensdokumente 1 copy
Záludná luna 1 copy
Oeuvres complètes, Tome II 1 copy
Paul Verlaine en Ardennes ; études et notes de Pierre Petitfils. Eva Thème, Paul Humblet, Yanny Hurea (1985) 1 copy
Poesies Choisies 1 copy
Charles Husson 1 copy
Sagesse - ed. do artista 1 copy
Choix de Poésies 1 copy
“The Art of Poetry” 1 copy
Rimbaud raconté par Paul Verlaine. Avec 4 dessins de Verlaine. Introduction et notes de Jules Mouquet. 4e édition (1934) 1 copy
gedichte paul verlaine 1 copy
Œuvres poétiques 1 copy
Poésies 1 copy
Poezje wybrane 1 copy
Obras poéticas 1 copy
Passeio sentimental 1 copy
Vers 1 copy
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 496 copies, 2 reviews
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) (2005) — Contributor — 231 copies
Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems (2000) — Contributor — 198 copies, 2 reviews
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 112 copies, 1 review
Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday (2021) — Contributor, some editions — 64 copies
Oogst Der Tijden. keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributor — 12 copies
Gedoemde dichters : van Gérard de Nerval tot en met Antonin Artaud : een bloemlezing uit de "poètes maudits" (1957) — Contributor — 9 copies
Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé: Translation and Introduction (1981) — Contributor — 6 copies
Verlaine's Rimbaud — Contributor — 1 copy
Yorkshire Poetry : No. 1 New Series February 1925 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Verlaine, Paul
- Legal name
- Verlaine, Paul-Marie
- Birthdate
- 1844-03-30
- Date of death
- 1896-01-08
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Lycée Condorcet
- Occupations
- poet
- Organizations
- Parnasse Contemporain
- Awards and honors
- Prince des poètes (1894-1896)
- Relationships
- Rimbaud, Arthur (lover)
- Short biography
- Verlaine was one of the leading French 19th century Symbolist poets, along with Mallarmé, Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry.
- Cause of death
- Pneumonie aiguë (+ Diabète, Alcoolisme, Ulcère, Syphilis
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Metz, France
- Places of residence
- Metz, France (birth)
Paris, Île-de-France, France - Place of death
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Burial location
- Cimetière des Batignolles, Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Reviews
Mulher e gata
Ela brincava com a gata,
Que maravilha era se olhar
A mão branca e abranca pata
Na sombra da noite a dançar.
Ela ocultava - que bandida! -
Nas mitenes de negra malha
As unhas de ágata assassinas,
Claras e afiadas tal navalha.
A outra se fazia sonsa
Mantendo a aguda garra esconsa
Mas o demônio tudo via...
E, nesse quarto, onde sonoro
Seu riso tão leve tinia,
Fosforeciam quatro pontos.
Ela brincava com a gata,
Que maravilha era se olhar
A mão branca e abranca pata
Na sombra da noite a dançar.
Ela ocultava - que bandida! -
Nas mitenes de negra malha
As unhas de ágata assassinas,
Claras e afiadas tal navalha.
A outra se fazia sonsa
Mantendo a aguda garra esconsa
Mas o demônio tudo via...
E, nesse quarto, onde sonoro
Seu riso tão leve tinia,
Fosforeciam quatro pontos.
Poems Under Saturn: Poèmes saturniens (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation, 63) by Paul Verlaine
Reading behind fabric of these poems, finding lavish synthonies with Saturnine fates, it appears that Verlaine, clearly inspired, was - like most poets that are not magicians - artfully plotting the unsaid, the invisible, the undone in a masterful fashion. What appears to the senses and becomes apparent, profane, or 'touched by human hand' may only be vulgarized, or becomes the subject of philosophy - rarely poetry, unless someone encodes the apparent in reverse to make it concealed for show more others to discover pure meanings. Alike to spiritual alchymy, it is either reverse-concealed, clear and true, or otherwise it is mere charlatanry. Clearly, muses of mother Rhea were at work and di manes (holy dead) that touched the poets heart, soul and mind. Highly commendable to anyone who is willing to breathe this thick eroticism of melancholic death in-between being a prisoner of passing dusks and dawns. show less
Poems Under Saturn: Poèmes saturniens (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) by Paul Verlaine
Reading behind fabric of these poems, finding lavish synthonies with Saturnine fates, it appears that Verlaine, clearly inspired, was - like most poets that are not magicians - artfully plotting the unsaid, the invisible, the undone in a masterful fashion. What appears to the senses and becomes apparent, profane, or 'touched by human hand' may only be vulgarized, or becomes the subject of philosophy - rarely poetry, unless someone encodes the apparent in reverse to make it concealed for show more others to discover pure meanings. Alike to spiritual alchymy, it is either reverse-concealed, clear and true, or otherwise it is mere charlatanry. Clearly, muses of mother Rhea were at work and di manes (holy dead) that touched the poets heart, soul and mind. Highly commendable to anyone who is willing to breathe this thick eroticism of melancholic death in-between being a prisoner of passing dusks and dawns. show less
Poems Under Saturn: Poèmes saturniens (Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation) by Paul Verlaine
Reading behind fabric of these poems, finding lavish synthonies with Saturnine fates, it appears that Verlaine, clearly inspired, was - like most poets that are not magicians - artfully plotting the unsaid, the invisible, the undone in a masterful fashion. What appears to the senses and becomes apparent, profane, or 'touched by human hand' may only be vulgarized, or becomes the subject of philosophy - rarely poetry, unless someone encodes the apparent in reverse to make it concealed for show more others to discover pure meanings. Alike to spiritual alchymy, it is either reverse-concealed, clear and true, or otherwise it is mere charlatanry. Clearly, muses of mother Rhea were at work and di manes (holy dead) that touched the poets heart, soul and mind. Highly commendable to anyone who is willing to breathe this thick eroticism of melancholic death in-between being a prisoner of passing dusks and dawns. show less
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