PAUL VERLAINE

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>PAUL VERLAINE</strong></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>By Stefan Zweig</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Edited by Andrew Jary</p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Paul Verlaine is one of the great lyrical French poets. This study by Stefan Zweig offers a survey of his poetry and a biography including his famous friendship with Arthur Rimbaud. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) is one of the great 19th century French poets part of the group that included Charles Baudelaire Lautr��amont G��rard de Nerval and of course Arthur Rimbaud. Many of Verlaine's most significant poems are collected in this book and Verlaine emerges as a highly accomplished artist with a lyrical rhyming style that's wholly his own (and it sounds particularly beautiful in French - Verlaine is tricky to translate). </p><p class=ql-align-justify>This edition of Stefan Zweig's monograph includes a selection of Paul Verlaine's best-known poems including 'Poetic Art' 'Claire de Lune' 'It's Raining In My Heart' 'C'est l'extase langoureuse' and 'Spleen'. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>With the French text opposite the English translations. Illustrated. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>112pp. www.crmoon.com</p><p><br></p>