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Verlaine: A Study in Parallels

Verlaine: A Study in Parallels

Carter, A. E.

Paperback

Series: University of Toronto Romance

Historical FiguresLiterary FiguresLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1442638958
ISBN13: 9781442638952
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1969
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges comparison with the very best of its kind. Yet here and there can be found a curious weakening in the texture of thought and inspiration: he turns and twists, takes flight, seeks reassurance in platitude and convention - marriage, dogmatic theology, reactionary political creeds. He is even capable of lamenting (as Rimbaud shows him in Une Saison en Enfer) the emotional and poetic experiments which give his work its supreme value. It is almost as though he were afraid of his own talent.

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