VERLAINE, PAUL

Additional reading Works and correspondence. Oeuvres potiques compltes, ed. by Y.-G. Le Dantec (1938); ed. by Jacques Borel (1968); Oeuvres compltes, ed. by Jacques Borel (195960); Oeuvres potiques, ed. by Jacques Robichez (1969); Correspondance, badly edited and incomplete, 3 vol. (192229); numerous more or less representative anthologies. Biography and criticism. The best accounts of Verlaine's life and works are Verlaine by Antoine Adam, new ed. (1966; The Art of Paul Verlaine, 1963); (in English) Verlaine, by Joanna Richardson (1971). Personal but not always accurate accounts were given by the poet's friends and contemporaries: Edmond Lepelletier, Paul Verlaine (1907; Eng. trans. 1909); and Ernest Delahaye, Verlaine (1919). Octave Nadal, Paul Verlaine (1961); and Eleonore Zimmerman, Magies de Verlaine (1967), assess Verlaine's work personally. Claude Cuenot, Le Style de Paul Verlaine, 2 vol. (1963), analyzes his style. Louis Morice, Paul Verlaine, le drame religieux (1946), is a Catholic view. Georges Zayed, La Formation littraire de Verlaine (1962), lists or suggests the poet's formative reading. Vernon P. Underwood, Verlaine et l'Angleterre (1956), describes his stays in England and possible effects on his work. Mathilde Verlaine gives her view of the ill-fated marriage in Mmoires de ma vie (1935). Major Works: Poetry. Pomes saturniens (1866); Ftes galantes (1869); La Bonne Chanson (1870); Romances sans paroles (1874); Sagesse (1880); Jadis et nagure (1884); Amour (1888); Paralllement (1889, rev. ed. 1894); Bonheur (1891); Chansons pour elle (1891); Liturgies intimes (1892); Odes en son honneur (1893); Chair, dernires posies (1896); Invectives (1896). See Oeuvres compltes, 2 vol. (195960), and for translations, Poems from Paul Verlaine, trans. by D. Creston (1928); Forty Poems, trans. by R. Grant and C. Apcher (1948); The Sky Above the Roof: Fifty-six Poems, trans. and introduction by B. Hill (1957); Selected Poems, trans. by C.F. MacIntyre (1948); Femmes/Hommes (1979), Alistair Elliot (trans.), a bilingual edition. Prose works. Les Potes maudits (1884); Les Hommes d'aujourd'hui (188593); Mes Hpitaux (1892, dated 1891); Mes Prisons (1893); Confessions, notes autobiographiques (1895; Confessions of a Poet, trans. by J. Richardson, 1950).