Verlaine

[ ver-len ]

noun

1. Paul [pawl], 1844–96, French poet.

Verlaine

/ vɛrlɛn /

noun

1. VerlainePaul18441896MFrenchWRITING: poet Paul (pɔl). 1844–96, French poet. His verse includes Poèmes saturniens (1866), Fêtes galantes (1869) and Romances sans paroles (1874). He was closely associated with Rimbaud and was a precursor of the symbolists

Example Sentences

One great writer, however, who would never have been what he was save for Charles Baudelaire, is Verlaine.

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In places the careless phrase, phrases careless of sense, in places the thing bien dit as in Verlaine.

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There is an air of almost military rigidity about the pride of this bust; I do not find Verlaine in that trait.

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Verlaine was nearer to the great secret when he wrote Sagesse and, at the same time, Paralllement.

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With the exception of two melodies for some lines by Verlaine, this was my first experience of composing music for French words.

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