L arte poetica paul verlaine biography

•

Verlaine et Rimbaud

1964 studio album by Léo Ferré

Verlaine et Rimbaud (English: "Verlaine and Rimbaud") is an album by Léo Ferré. It was released in December 1964 by Barclay Records. This album is one of the first studio double albums in popular music history (before Bob Dylan's or Frank Zappa's).

Background

[edit]

Verlaine et Rimbaud is Ferré's third LP entirely dedicated to a poet, after Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal ("Flowers of Evil") in 1957 and Les Chansons d'Aragon ("Songs of Aragon") in 1961. Here, Ferré sets into music 10 poems from Arthur Rimbaud and 14 from Paul Verlaine. He considers their two different kind of poetry as a whole and mixes them in the track listing, to underline their mythical love affair. The way classical music 'soundscape' tastefully fits into tuneful and straightforward songs is something of an achievement here.

Track listing

[edit]

All songs composed by Léo Ferré.

Original LP

Title	Writer(s)
1.	"Écoutez l • What poet’s life lends itself better to myth than Arthur Rimbaud’s? By the age of sixteen, he had written one of the most celebrated poems in French literature. Soon he was shocking bohemian Paris, living on absinthe and hashish and openly having an affair with Paul Verlaine. He wrote his masterpiece, “Une Saison en Enfer” (“A Season in Hell”), in a few months’ fevered productivity but supposedly cast almost all the printed copies into the flames. (When the allegedly burned books were discovered in the publisher’s archives a decade after Rimbaud’s death, the poet’s literary executor asked that they be destroyed in order to “give the appearance of truth” to the legend.) In the years that followed, Rimbaud wandered the globe, working odd jobs from circus cashier to African gunrunner. But he never wrote another word. Normally, a poet’s work proves a useful antidote to the mythologizing tendency, but the material that Rimbaud left behind is both limited and ambiguous. His complete work •	French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. Paul Verlaine's life style wavered between criminality and naive innocence; he married a ung girl in 1870 but after a year fell in love with the young poet Arthur Rimbaud, who was seventeen. With Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire he formed the so-called Decadents. In Verlaine's works two impressions predominate: that only self fryst vatten important, and that the function of poetry fryst vatten to preserve moments of extreme känsla and unique impressions. In spite of the 'vagueness' of his poetry, Verlaine showed a careful craftsmanship in his compositions, using simple, musical language. He maintained the outward struktur of classical poetry, but his work opened the way for free verse. Paul Verlaine was born in Metz, northeast France, where his father, an infantry captain, happened to be stationed. Paul was the only child, but there lived also with the family an orphan cousin, Elisa Déhee, whom t

Title

Writer(s)

"Écoutez l

•

What poet’s life lends itself better to myth than Arthur Rimbaud’s? By the age of sixteen, he had written one of the most celebrated poems in French literature. Soon he was shocking bohemian Paris, living on absinthe and hashish and openly having an affair with Paul Verlaine. He wrote his masterpiece, “Une Saison en Enfer” (“A Season in Hell”), in a few months’ fevered productivity but supposedly cast almost all the printed copies into the flames. (When the allegedly burned books were discovered in the publisher’s archives a decade after Rimbaud’s death, the poet’s literary executor asked that they be destroyed in order to “give the appearance of truth” to the legend.) In the years that followed, Rimbaud wandered the globe, working odd jobs from circus cashier to African gunrunner. But he never wrote another word.

Normally, a poet’s work proves a useful antidote to the mythologizing tendency, but the material that Rimbaud left behind is both limited and ambiguous. His complete work

•

French poet and leader of the Symbolist movement in poetry. Paul Verlaine's life style wavered between criminality and naive innocence; he married a ung girl in 1870 but after a year fell in love with the young poet Arthur Rimbaud, who was seventeen. With Stéphane Mallarmé and Charles Baudelaire he formed the so-called Decadents. In Verlaine's works two impressions predominate: that only self fryst vatten important, and that the function of poetry fryst vatten to preserve moments of extreme känsla and unique impressions. In spite of the 'vagueness' of his poetry, Verlaine showed a careful craftsmanship in his compositions, using simple, musical language. He maintained the outward struktur of classical poetry, but his work opened the way for free verse.

Paul Verlaine was born in Metz, northeast France, where his father, an infantry captain, happened to be stationed. Paul was the only child, but there lived also with the family an orphan cousin, Elisa Déhee, whom t