The tragic fate of Paul Verlaine - signed autograph poem. "Literature".

Paul Verlaine (1844.1896)

Signed autograph poem - Literature.

One page in-8°. Slnd.

" With the right to famine, to great black misery, and almost to vermin, this is called glory! »»

Magnificent poem with testamentary accents which summarizes, in twenty-five to octosyllabic and under the auspices of the title "Literature", the tragic fate of Paul Verlaine both lulled with glory, admirations, abandonments and absolute misery.

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Literature

Good comrades of the press
as also of poetry,
flowers of mufism and baseness,
elite by what God chosen,
by what God of all baseness?

Colleagues badly brothers of me
who would almost bury me
in all this silence - why? -Since
the awful seventy.
Colleagues bad brothers of me.

Why this silence bad brother
for so long years,
and suddenly, as in anger
these clamors, as surprised,
why this badly brother change!

Ah, if we could suffocate me
under this pile of newspapers
where my name that we pretend to find
as we meet kernels
swells to make it die!

This is called glory!
- With the right to famine,
to the great black misery
and almost to the vermin -
that is called glory!

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Originally published in the White Review of November 1891, this poem will take place in the invective published posthu, at Léon Vanier in 1896.