Paul Verlaine

by Stefan Zweig, Paul Verlaine (Contribution by), Arthur Symons (Translator)

Overview

PAUL VERLAINE

By Stefan Zweig

Edited by Andrew Jary

Paul Verlaine is one of the great lyrical French poets. This study by Stefan Zweig offers a survey of his poetry and a biography, including his famous friendship with Arthur Rimbaud.

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) is one of the great 19th century French poets, part of the group that included Charles Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Gérard de Nerval and of course Arthur Rimbaud. Many of Verlaine's most significant poems are collected in this book, and Verlaine emerges as a highly accomplished artist, with a lyrical rhyming style that's wholly his own (and it sounds particularly beautiful in French - Verlaine is tricky to translate).

This edition of Stefan Zweig's monograph includes a selection of Paul Verlaine's best-known poems, including 'Poetic Art', 'Claire de Lune', 'It's Raining In My Heart', 'C'est l'extase langoureuse' and 'Spleen'.

With the French text opposite the English translations. Illustrated.

112pp. www.crmoon.com

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781816718082
Publisher:	Crescent Moon Publishing
Publication date:	02/06/2023
Series:	European Writers
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

Stefan Zweig (28 November 1881 - 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. Zweig was born in Vienna, the son of Moritz Zweig (1845-1926), a wealthy Jewish textile manufacturer, and Ida Brettauer (1854-1938), a daughter of a Jewish banking family.He was related to the Czech writer Egon Hostovský, who described him as "a very distant relative" some sources describe them as cousins.