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Meeting around the VERLAINE RIMBAUD Poetic Anthology
Culture · Saturday, November 21 · 15:00 · Paris
Médiathèque Edmond Rostand, 11 rue Nicolas Chuquet
Free
Paul Verlaine is the poet most closely linked to the life and legend of Arthur Rimbaud. After receiving in the summer of 1871 poems signed AR, including 'Les effarés' and lines from the future 'Bateau ivre', impressed and moved by the power of these verses, he will send him an invitation. The quote has remained famous: 'Come, dear great soul, you are called, you are awaited.' The project of this anthology, in connection with the 130th anniversary of Verlaine's death, is to pay tribute to the two poets based on their lives, on their poetic creations…
