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Paul Verlaine
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Paul Verlaine :
'[Around 1912-13, when she began her association with Mrs Catherine Dawson Scott] Charlotte [Mew] [...] was reading Flaubert as always, Chekhov, Conrad and Verlaine'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Mew Print: Book
Paul Verlaine : [poems]
[her governess Helen Roothman] 'introduced Edith to the works of Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarme. Though Edith had had a taste for Baudelaire through Swinburne's translations of the author of "Les Fleurs du mal", she found her governess' favorites even more to her liking'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Edith Sitwell Print: Book
Paul Verlaine : [unknown]
'Throughout 1939 his reports speak of "improvements", and even though he still did "not much like" his English teacher he worked hard, widening his reading to include Verlaine and Lamartine as well as Auden and Eliot'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Philip Larkin Print: Book
Paul Verlaine : 'Mon Reve Familier'
'He is likely to have read a good deal of French verse as well as prose during the winter of 1914-15; there are several relevant books in his library, including a few marked anthologies, and a 1914 transcription of Verlaine's sonnet 'Mon reve familier'.'
