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The Good Song

The Good Song

Verlaine, Paul
Robinson, Richard
Lepelletier, Edmond

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1955392285
ISBN13: 9781955392280
Publisher: Sunny Lou Publishing
Published: May 30 2022
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Good Song (originally La Bonne Chanson) was the third book of poetry written by French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Originally published in 1870, The Good Songʼs theme is love. More particularly its theme is love for, and anticipation of marriage with, his future child-wife, Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville. It includes all the concomitant feelings one might expect from the poet: love, joy, elation, doubt, fear, nuptial desire or passion, to name only a few. Their romance took place with the Franco-Prussian War in the background. Having appeared during the war, it was according to Victor Hugo a flower in a shell. It represented, according to Edmond Lepelletier, a transformation, a change in poetic matter and a transition piece... the passage from objective, descriptive, plastic, externalized poetry to personal expression, to a confession of the soul, to the notation of battles of the heart or excitations of the brain.

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