The poems collected in Romances sans paroles ( 1874 ) were written between 1872 and 1873, inspired by Verlaine's nostalgically colored recollections of his life with Mathilde on the one hand and impressionistic sketches of his on-again off-again year-long escapade with Rimbaud on the other.

The staid respectability of married, heterosexual life and easy, middle class surroundings had been stifling Verlaine's admittedly sybaritic literary talent.

Along with Tom Verlaine, in 1971 Hell also published under the pseudonym Theresa Stern, a fictional poet whose photo was actually a combination of both his and Verlaine's faces, in drag, superimposed over one another to create a new identity.

Verlaine's last years saw his descent into drug addiction, alcoholism, and poverty.

Pasternak went so far as to translate much of Verlaine's verse into Russian.

It is interesting, however, to note that " Promenade Sentimentale " alludes specifically to one of Verlaine's earliest collections, " Poèmes saturniens ," a fact that Debussy obviously took into account when he changed the name ( and most likely a lot of the music ) in order to suit both his later style, and Verlaine's.

The term came into wider usage since Verlaine's anthology.

Among the admirers of Verlaine's work was the Russian language poet and novelist Boris Pasternak.

His work was little known until Paul Verlaine included him in his gallery of poètes maudits ( accursed poets ), but Verlaine's recommendation was enough to get his work noticed and established him as one of the masters acknowledged by the Symbolists.

" Fugazi's guitar work has earned comparisons to Tom Verlaine's playing with New York art-punk icons Television and the early work of the UK's Gang of Four.

* Verlaine's work in French ( pdf )

Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.

On Verlaine's release from prison in February 1875, Rimbaud entrusted him with the manuscript known today as Illuminations with the mission to mail it to Germain Nouveau in Brussels.

Several months later, Verlaine loaned the manuscripts to the composer Charles de Sivry ( the half-brother of Verlaine's estranged wife, Mathilde Mauté ) with the aim of their being set to music.

The subject of the decadence of the Roman Empire was a frequent source of literary images and appears in the works of many poets of the period, regardless of which name they chose for their style, as in Verlaine's " Langueur ":

Mauté became Verlaine's wife in 1870.

Of the several attempts at defining the essence of symbolism, perhaps none was more influential than Paul Verlaine's 1884 publication of a series of essays on Tristan Corbière, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Gérard de Nerval, and " Pauvre Lelian " (" Poor Lelian ", an anagram of Paul Verlaine's own name ), each of whom Verlaine numbered among the poètes maudits, " accursed poets.

Gabriel Fauré composed many mélodies, such as the song cycles Cinq mélodies " de Venise " and La bonne chanson, which were settings of Verlaine's poems.

Claude Debussy set to music Clair de lune and six of the Fêtes galantes poems, forming part of the mélodie collection known as the Recueil Vasnier, and the Belgian-British composer Poldowski ( daughter of Henryk Wieniawski ) set 21 of Verlaine's poems.

Verlaine's Complete Works are available in critical editions from the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

French poet Paul Verlaine's " Chanson d ' automne " (" Autumn Song ") is likewise characterised by strong, painful feelings of sorrow.

Rimbaud and Verlaine's stormy affair took them to London in 1872.

Numerous artists painted Verlaine's portrait.

: Mine have been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud.

French singer-songwriter Georges Moustaki put out a song titled " Gaspard ", based on Paul Verlaine's poem.

The wild, eccentric Rimbaud displays no sense of manners or decency whatever, scandalising Verlaine's pretentious, bourgeois in-laws.

At Verlaine's request, Nouveau returned the manuscript two years later at a meeting in London in 1877.

The mythological private eye differs from his counterpart in real life in two essential ways.

Surrounded by crime and violence everywhere, the `` hardboiled '' private eye can retain his purity only through a life of self-imposed isolation.

Everyone knows that private detectives in real life are not like Sam Spade and Pat Novak, but the real and the imaginary musician are closely linked.

She fell asleep leaning on her hand, hearing the house creaking as though it were a living a private life of its own these two hundred years, hearing the birds rustling in their cages and the occasional whirring of wings as one of them landed on the table and walked across the newspaper to perch in the crook of her arm.

In private life, Miss Garson is Mrs. E. E. Fogelson and on the go most of the time commuting from Dallas, where they maintain an apartment, to their California home in Los Angeles' suburban Bel-Air to their ranch in Pecos, New Mexico.

Applied ethics is the philosophical examination, from a moral standpoint, of particular issues in private and public life that are matters of moral judgment.

In 1889 Alexander's father, King Milan, unexpectedly abdicated and withdrew to private life, proclaiming Alexander king of Serbia under a regency until he should attain his majority at eighteen years of age.

It could be that Ayckbourn had written plays with himself and his own issues in mind, but as Ayckbourn is portrayed as a guarded and private man, it is hard to imagine him exposing his own life in his plays to any great degree.

Access to famous persons, too, became more and more restricted ; potential visitors would be forced through numerous different checks before being granted access to the official in question, and as communication became better and information technology more prevalent, it has become all but impossible for a would-be killer to get close enough to the personage at work or in private life to effect an attempt on his or her life, especially given the common use of metal and bomb detectors.

In 1839 he settled his private life by marrying Mary Anne Lewis, the rich widow of Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.

" Gladstone also hinted at the strength of his own faith, and the role it played in his public life, when he addressed Disraeli's most personal and private appeal:

Thorpe was subsequently forced to resign after allegations about his private life.

Lancaster vigorously guarded his private life.

His high-profile public and private life encompassed both adulation and controversy.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

Since the new Emperor was not any more generous than the old, Claudius gave up hope of public office and retired to a scholarly, private life.

In this manner, the censors gradually assumed at least nominal complete superintendence over the whole public and private life of every citizen.

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It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

Citizenship was not seen as a separate activity from the private life of the individual person, in the sense that there was not a distinction between public and private life.

From the viewpoint of the ancient Greeks, a person's public life was not separated from their private life, and Greeks did not distinguish between the two worlds according to the modern western conception.