VERLAINE (Paul). - Lot 284

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VERLAINE (Paul). - Lot 284
VERLAINE (Paul). Born in Metz. 1844-1896. French writer and poet. L.A.S. "P. Verlaine" to "Cher Monsieur". Vouziers (Ardennes), s.d. [24, ca. 1884]. 1 page in-8. ...I was unable to read your other 2 novels If you only knew what terrible worries I have! But from this evening I'll be acquainted with your exquisite books, which I judge such after Songes lu...Settled with his mother on the farm of Malval in the Ardennes, Verlaine sabandons at livrognerie. Elisa Verlaine, anxious to protect her son, gave him the farm with a seizability clause. Verlaine did not spare her his excesses of brutality, which brought him before the Vouziers court (in February 1885). On March 8, 1885, Verlaine put a definitive end to this Ardennes parenthesis and sold the house before returning to Paris.Songes, is a novel by Francis Poictevin (1854-1904), dedicated to Maupassant and published by Kistemaeckers in Brussels in 1884. Poictevin had previously published La Robe du moine (1882) and Ludine (1883). A dandy, an aesthete and a disciple of Edmond de Goncourt, Poictevin gradually drifted into madness. After falling into loubli, he later aroused the admiration of Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard and André Breton. Verlaine devoted a monograph to him in Les Hommes daujourdhui, no. 424, 1894.
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