Songs without Words
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: Oct 01, 2013
Language: eng; fre
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781890650872
Description: Songs without words (Romances sans paroles) is the book in which, unabashedly, Paul Verlaine becomes himself and, in so doing, becomes the iconic poet of the French nineteenth century. A book of musical sequences, it seeks and finds exquisite purity of expression, best exemplified by "Il pleure dans mon coeur," the most famous and most inimitable of all French lyric poems.