... of Washington 2007 Valencia’s Verlaine: The Social History of a Colombian Verse José María Rodríguez García Lyric Poetry and Late-Nineteenth-Century Society any of the poems in Guillermo Valencia’s volume Poesías (1898), reti- Mtled Ritos in 1899, are about a suffering and solitary figure...

...Philip Stephan Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 DECADENT POETRY IN LE CHAT NOIR BEFORE VERLAINE’S “LANGUEUR’’ By PHILIPSTEPHAN According to the traditional view held by historians of French sym- bolism...

...? Its gods, Verlaine and MallarmC, had risen from neglect and oblivion to fame and acc1amation.O MallarmC’s Tuesdays, to which the faithful few had resorted for years, became a center of attraction. *Read before the German Section of the Philological Association of the Pacific...

..., www.cnrtl.fr/definition/hantise (accessed February 26, 2018). 18 On the love affair between Verlaine and Rimbaud (and its unhappy aftermath), see Robb 2001 . “Like City’s Rain, My Heart” is Norman Shapiro’s ( 1998 ) somewhat free translation of Verlaine’s title. It is likely that Verlaine is also...

..., in that it lacks the maudlin character, the plebeian, unbraked confession and expression of despair of the Romantics, and the morbidity and splenetic vitriol of Baude- laire” @. 135). Butler has coups de patte for Rimbaud and MallarmC as well, and of Verlaine’s “Art podtique” he says: “Even though...

... English and French versions. The situation is, it is true, complicated by the fact that the book discusses in depth a formidable array of figures and texts even in chapters overtly dealing with single authors. The attention Rabat6 gives Rimbaud, Verlaine, Joyce, Pound, and T. S. Eliot enables them...

... and treatises. His extended close reading of Ueda Bin’s translations of Paul Verlaine’s and José-Maria de Heredia’s poems in chapter 4 exemplifies this book’s promise. Mehl also does an admirable job of linking Japanese poets with their counterparts in world literature to underscore comparative compositional...

... smacks of Jansenism, and not only in the embryonic deter- minism: “God is reached by man’s spirit; without it, a man knows only restlessness” (p. 94); or “The great temptations of Rimbaud had been baptism, Verlaine, and poetry” @. 101). The author is laudably preoccupied with sin regarding...

... political tendencies and wrote several novels, among them fictionized versions of Sardou’s Madame Sans-Ghze and Patrie! He is perhaps best known as the author of Paul Verlaine, sa vie, son a3uvreJ11in which, by virtue of a long chapter on the Parnassians, he takes his place among...

... visit to France in 1889. There George quickly felt at home. He met such poets as Saint-Paul, Verlaine, and MallarmC. MallarmC made the greatest impression on young George because the loftiness of purpose of this French symbolist was most nearly akin to George’s own high ideals. Goldsmith...

...,” with I. A. Richards, Cleanth Brooks, and R. P. Blackmur heading the insurgents. Among the great poets of France, Baudelaire, ValCry, Rimbaud, and Verlaine have already been reassessed in the light of textual analysis, or, to speak with Northrop Frye, their poems have been restudied...

..., Valbry: Preservations and Commentary. Sara- toga, Calif.: Anma Libri, Stanford French and Italian Studies, 23, 1981. 149 pp. Peschel, Enid Rhodes (translator). Four French Symbolist Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmt. Translation and introduction by Enid Rhodes Peschel. Preface...

... pokme et aussi ce qui l’emp&he” (p. 142). MallarmC: “Voici un exemple frappant de la puissance du p&me sur le destin du personnage” (p. 159). Verlaine: “Le pokme le prepare P la sagesse, et lui refait un climat d’innocence. Le pokte rachkte l’homme” (p. 172). Rimbaud: “L’oeuvre [Bateau...

... the reverberations of that maniera in music, in painting, interior decoration, architecture, fashion in dress, garden-landscaping, industrial crafts, etc if the monotony of that epidermic sentimental eroticism, of that permanent embaryuement pour Cythtre (which, however, magnetizes Verlaine...

... in Language and Literature, Vol. 45, 1958. Pp. vii + 113. $2.50, paper ; $3.50, cloth. MacIntyre, C. F. (translator). French Symbolist Poetry : Nerd, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Corbike, MallarmC, Rimbaud, Laforgue, ValCry. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1958. Pp. x...

... : Bditions Regain, 1963. Pp. 234. 10 Fr. Cuenot, Claude. Le Style de Paul Verlaine. Paris: Centre de Documentation Universitaire Sociitk &edition d’Enseignement SupCrieur, 1963. Pp. 581. 45 Fr. Dieckmann, H. (editor). Diderot : Contes. London : University of London Press, Ltd...

.... Contribution B la lexicographie francaise selon d’anciens textes d‘origine juive. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 1960. Pp. 658. $9.00. MacIntyre, C. F. (translator). Paul Verlaine : Selected Poems. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. Pp. xx 4- 228. $1.50...

..., ValCry, Rimbaud, and Verlaine have already been reassessed in the light of textual analysis, or, to speak with Northrop Frye, their poems have been restudied, not as verbal documents, to be related as fully as possible to the history and the ideas that they reflect, but simply as poems where...

..., Georges. La Formation littCraire de Verlaine (avec des documents iti6dits). Gencve : Librairie E. Droz ; Paris : Librairie Minard, 1962. Pp. 412. GENERAL Black, Max (editor). The Importance of Language. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Spectrum...

... in Literature on the grounds that the term decadence was mired in imprecision. Symons’s substitution establishes the terms for modernism’s subsequent denial of its steadfast reliance on decadent poetics. Where the 1893 Harper’s essay extolled Paul Verlaine’s “exquisite depravity,” Symons now celebrates...