See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

PAUL See also:

• PAUL VERLAINE (1844–1896)

VERLAINE (1844–1896)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French lyric poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• METZ

Metz on the 3oth of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1844 . He was the son of one of See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon's soldiers, who had become a See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain of See also:

• ENGINEERS, MILITARY

engineers . See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul See also:

• VERLAINE, PAUL (1844–1896)

Verlaine was educated in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, and became clerk in an See also:

• INSURANCE

insurance See also:

• COMPANY

company . He was a member of the Parnassian circle, with Catulle Mendes, See also:

• SULLY, JAMES (1842– )
• SULLY, MAXIMILIEN DE BETHUNE
• SULLY, THOMAS (1783—1872)

Sully Prudhomme, See also:

• FRANCOIS (1558-1614)

Francois See also:

• COPPEE, FRANCOIS EDOUARD JOACHIM (1842—1908)
• COPPEE, HENRY (1821-1895)

Coppee and the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest . His first See also:

• VOLUME

volume of poems, the Poetizes saturniens (1866), was written under Parnassian influences, from which the Fetes galantes (1869), as of a See also:

• WATTEAU, ANTOINE (1684-1721)

Watteau of See also:

• POETRY

poetry, began a delicate See also:

• ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape; and in La Bonne Chanson (187o) the defection was still more marked . He married in 1870 Mlle . Mautet . During the See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

Commune he was involved with the authorities for having sheltered his See also:

• FRIENDS, SOCIETY
• FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF

friends, and was obliged to leave See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France . In 1871 the See also:

• STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young poet See also:

• JEAN

Jean See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

Arthur See also:

• RIMBAUD, JEAN ARTHUR (1854-1891)

Rimbaud came somewhat troublingly into his See also:

• LIFE

life, into which drink had already brought a lasting disturbance . With Rimbaud he wandered over France, See also:

• BELGIUM
• BELGIUM (Fr. Belgique; Flem. Belgic)

Belgium, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, until a See also:

• PISTOL

pistol-shot, fortunately See also:

• ILL

ill-aimed, against his See also:

• COMPANION (through the O. Fr. compaignon or compagnon, from the Late Lat. companio,—cum, with, and panis, bread,—one who shares meals with another; the word has been wrongly derived from the Late Lat. compagnus, one of the same pages or district)

companion brought upon him two years of imprisonment at See also:

• MONS (Flemish Bergen)

Mons . Solitude, confinement and thought converted a See also:

• PAGAN
• PAGAN (Lat. paganus, of or belonging to a pagus, a canton, county district, village, commune)

pagan into a See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, without, however, rooting out what was most human in the pagan; and after many years' silence he published Sagesse (1881), a collection of religious poems, which, for humble and passionate conviction, as well as originality of poetic beauty, must be ranked with the finest religious poems ever written . Romances sans paroles, composed during the intervals of wandering, appeared in 1874, and shows us Verlaine at his most perfect moment of See also:

• ARTISTIC

artistic self-See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession, before he has quite found what is deepest in himself .

He returned to France in 1875 . His wife had obtained a See also:

• DIVORCE

divorce from him, and Verlaine made another See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short stay in England, acting as a teacher of French . After about two years' See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence Verlaine was again in France . He acted as teacher in more than one school and even tried farming . The See also:

• DEATH

death of his See also:

• MOTHER

mother, to whom he was tenderly attached, dissolved the ties that See also:

• BOUND, or BOUNDARY (from O. Fr. bonde, Med. Lat. bodena or butina, a frontier line)

bound him to " respectable " society . During the rest of his life he lived in poverty, often in See also:

• HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital, but always with the heed-less and unconquerable cheerfulness of a See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child . After a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long obscurity, famous only in the Latin See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

Quarter, among the cafes where he spent so much of his days and nights, he enjoyed at last a See also:

• EUROPEAN

European celebrity . In 1894 he paid another visit to England, this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time as a distinguished poet, and lectured at See also:

• LONDON

London and See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford . He died in Paris on the 8th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1896 . His eighteen volumes of See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse (among which may be further mentioned Jadis et naguere, 1884; Amour, 1888; Parallelement, 1889; See also:

• BONHEUR [MARIE ROSALIE], ROSA (1822-1899)

Bonheur, 1891) vary greatly in quality as in substance; they are all the sincere expression, almost the instantaneous notation, of himself, of his varying moods, sensual See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion, the passion of the mystic, the delight of the sensitive artist in the.' See also:

• FINE

fine shades of sensation . He brought into French verse a See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note of lyrical See also:

• SONG

song, a delicacy in the evocation of See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound and See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, which has seemed almost to create poetry over again, as it provides a See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language out of which See also:

• RHETORIC (Gr. psroperctj TEXvq, the art of the orator)

rhetoric has been cleansed and a See also:

• RHYTHM (Greek pvBµds, from bap, to flow)

rhythm into which a new See also:

• MUSIC

music has come with a new simplicity.' (A . SY.) His CEuvres completes (3 vols.) were published in 1899, &c.; CEuvres posthumes (1903) .

See also Paul Verlaine, sa See also:

• VIE

vie, son oeuvre, by E . Lepelletier (1907) ; monographs by M . Dullaert (See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, 1896), C . Morice (1888); also Anatole France, La Vie litteraire (3rd See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series, 1891); J . See also:

• LEMAITRE, FRANCOIS ELIE JULES (1853— )

Lemaitre, Nos contemporains (1889), vol. iv.; E . See also:

• DELILLE, JACQUES (1738–1813)

Delille, " The Poet Verlaine," in the Fortnightly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review (March 1891); A . See also:

• SYMONS
• SYMONS, GEORGE JAMES (1838-1900)

Symons, in the See also:

• NATIONAL

National Review (See also:

• JUNE

June 1892); V . See also:

• THOMPSON
• THOMPSON, FRANCIS (1860-1907)
• THOMPSON, LAUNT (1833-1894)
• THOMPSON, SIR HENRY, BART
• THOMPSON, SIR JOHN SPARROW (1844-1894)
• THOMPSON, THOMAS PERONNET (1783-1869)
• THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

Thompson, French Portraits (See also:

• BOSTON
• BOSTON, THOMAS (1676-1732)

Boston, U.S.A., 'See also:

• COON

coon); and the poet's own Confessions (1895) and his Pates maudits (1888) . A bibliography of Verlaine with an See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the existing portraits of him is included in the Pates d'Aujourd'hui (11th ed., 1905) of MM . A. See also:

• VAN

van Bever and P . Leautaud . The Vie by Lepelletier has been translated into See also:

• ENGLISH

English by E .

M . See also:

• LANG, ANDREW (1844— )
• LANG, KARL HEINRICH, RITTER VON (1764-1835)

Lang (1909) .