Poetry Group: Rimbaud & a taste of Verlaine Tues 8.00pm @ Le Lion Blanc

1. 1871 Le Dormeur Du Val/The Sleeper in the Valley

https://www.frenchtoday.com/french-poetry-reading/poem-le-dormeur-du-val-rimbaud

2. 1871 Le Bateau Ivre/The Drunken Boat

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/55036/the-drunken-boat


3. 1873 Une Saison En Enfer/A Season in Hell

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Rimbaud3.htm#anchor_Toc202003797

a) Mauvais Sang /Bad Blood

b) Delires 1/ Ravings 1( La Verge Folle /The Foolish Virgin

c) Matin/Morning and Adieu/Goodbye


4.1872-1874 Les Illuminations

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Rimbaud2.htm#anchor_Toc202067649

a) Apres Le Deluge/After the flood

b) Conte/Tale

c) Villes /Cities

d) Democracy

4. Verlaine 1844-96 (pdfs to follow)

http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/Verlaine.htm

a) 1874 “It Rains in my heart” in Arriettes oublies III

b) 1883 “Langeur/Languor”- in Jadis et Naguère


c) 1888 “Sleeping Beauty Dreams” -in Amour Lucien Letinois X1

Hope to see you a Le Lion Blanc at 8.00pm on Tues!

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