Verlaine

[ ver-len ]

/ vɛrˈlɛn /

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noun

Paul

[pawl], /pɔl/, 1844–96, French poet.

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How to use Verlaine in a sentence

One great writer, however, who would never have been what he was save for Charles Baudelaire, is Verlaine.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
In places the careless phrase, phrases careless of sense, in places the thing bien dit as in Verlaine.
Instigations|Ezra Pound
There is an air of almost military rigidity about the pride of this bust; I do not find Verlaine in that trait.
Impressions And Comments|Havelock Ellis
Verlaine was nearer to the great secret when he wrote Sagesse and, at the same time, Paralllement.
Impressions And Comments|Havelock Ellis

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

British Dictionary definitions for Verlaine

Verlaine

/ (French vɛrlɛn) /

noun

Paul (pɔl). 1844–96, French poet. His verse includes Poèmes saturniens (1866), Fêtes galantes (1869) and Romances sans paroles (1874). He was closely associated with Rimbaud and was a precursor of the symbolists

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