Paul Verlaine

FW learned to read at three: I remember . . . the way the letters suddenly made sense. After her grandmother joined the family in 1942 she was able to borrow adult books from...

At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen...

As a child she had already met several distinguished writers in England, and Mary Clarke Mohl and Turgenev in France. As a young adult she quickly became known to many eminent members of the...

Its contents include a number of fairly light-hearted treatments of topical subjects: The Legend (which describes a mythical, impossibly immense animal, which the last words reveal to be the elephant, once it has become extinct...

A series of reviews by others precedes Farr's own account of her musical recitations. These experiments in verse performance began as illustrations of Yeats's theories of the music and rhythm of spoken verse, but Farr...

While the title alludes to Lewis Carroll , the chapters are headed with quotations which begin with Shakespeare and Verlaine , move through such less usual sources as Punch and Rupert Brooke , and conclude...

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

On 22 November 1893, Edith and Katharine joined eighty to an hundred intellectual listeners, many of them women, at Barnard's Inn in London to hear Verlaine read his poetry.

The book contains poems by, among others, Baudelaire , Rimbaud , and Verlaine . Cornford's translations appear on the facing pages.

French as well as English poetry is much in evidence here, predominantly Gérard de Nerval , Baudelaire , Stéphane Mallarmé , Verlaine , and Rimbaud , all of whom she much admired. ES groups her...

They mention the need for new funds and the way they will supplement previous subscriptions. They specify some of the material they have already collected from other authors and publishers to sell on...

In L'amour défenduNCB defends the proposition that only love is important, not the sex to whom it is directed. She argues that every person possesses both masculine and feminine principles: We should not...

This book deals very largely with her French extended family, her visits to France as a young adult, and her French social circles. She meant it to dispel certain false ideas, English rather than American...

She concentrates on the visits of her subjects to England in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries. To all of them—Mallarmé (a poet she deeply loved), Verlaine (whose list of books probably read...