We can imagine this bold, careless, impulsive artist, with his moments of great exaltation and alternate depression, a kind of Chinese
Paul Verlaine, with his sensitive mind of a child, always recording impressions as they come.
Butler living up to social etiquette and enunciating his views on
Paul Verlaine or the German drama or the novels of D'Annunzio.
Oh and, of course, we remember Arthur Rimbaud and
Paul Verlaine as fantastic French poets, but they were also tempestuous lovers, too much fire between them.
"Rain Song: Homage to
Paul Verlaine" lyrically references Debussy's "Il pleure de mon coeur" (Ariettes Oubliees) with an erotically charged text.
The coinage was
Paul Verlaine's, whose little book Les Poetes mandits (1888) honored spirits such as Arthur Rimbaud, Tristan Corbiere, Stephane Mallarme, and Auguste Villiers de l'lsle-Adam.
The thirteen songs in the Vasnier notebook comprised five texts by
Paul Verlaine, six by Paul Bourget, and one each by Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Musset (the latter represented by Chanson espagnole, the only duet in the collection).
It was followed by Bre's performance of poems by
Paul Verlaine. The featured artists proceeded with the chamber music concert with renditions of masterpieces of other French composers Camille Saint-Saens, Gabriel Faure and Eugene Anthiome.
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Paul Verlaine B Jean Trieste C Michel Delaporte D Jaques Reno 5.
For the most recent version of the series on display in this show, Lutker invoked an incident from 1935 when Breton and a group of friends dined at La Closerie des Lilas, a favored restaurant on the boulevard du Montparnasse once frequented by Charles Baudelaire and
Paul Verlaine, and later immortalized by Ernest Hemingway in his 1964 Parisian memoir, A Moveable Feast.
Paul Verlaine - French symbolist poet (1844-1896)