Verlaine

One great writer, however, who would never have been what he was save for Charles Baudelaire, is Verlaine.

In places the careless phrase, phrases careless of sense, in places the thing bien dit as in Verlaine.

There is an air of almost military rigidity about the pride of this bust; I do not find Verlaine in that trait.

Verlaine was nearer to the great secret when he wrote Sagesse and, at the same time, Paralllement.

With the exception of two melodies for some lines by Verlaine, this was my first experience of composing music for French words.