
The Dean’s office of Villanova’s College of Arts and Sciences granted me sabbatical leave to finish my manuscript I shudder to think of what state it would still be in without that precious time away from the office.

It’s hard to imagine how one person could excel at simultaneously being a student, colleague, editor, mentor, and friend, but Jody Ross does it all, and with grace. Similar gratitude goes to Lee Abraham, Jean Lutes, Charles Muskiet, Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Carlos Trujillo, and Béatrice Waggaman. Thanks to Jan Rigaud, whose friendship has helped to make going to the office a pleasure. Some friends and colleagues will find their names below I hope that those whose names do not appear will understand that listing everyone on whom I have relied would create a book at least as long as the one you are currently reading (to say nothing of what that book’s index might look like). All are published here with permission and with the grateful thanks of the author. Parts of chapter two appeared in earlier versions in Revue Verlaine similarly, earlier versions of portions of chapter three were published in Lire Rimbaud: Approches critiques Parade sauvage and Actes du colloque de Charleville de 2004. This book would not have been possible without exceptional generosity from many in the process of researching and writing it I have amassed a debt I will likely never fully repay. ISBN-13: 978-9-2 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007 Printed in The NetherlandsĪcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Dominance of Parnassian PoetryĬhapter Two: Verlaine’s Identities Melancholia The Love-Struck Subject Verlaine’s Poetics of Indecision After the Fall or, The Subject, the Sacred, and the Profane Favorite Positions Toward an Aesthetic of DecayĬhapter Three: Rimbaud, Beyond Time and Space “la poésie objective” “le dérèglement de tous les sens” Time and Space in Rimbaud’s Verse Poetry Derniers vers: Pushing Limits, Stretching Out On “Mémoire” Time and Space, Illuminated Hortense Found, in Time Mouvement Le papier sur lequel le présent ouvrage est imprimé remplit les prescriptions de ‘ISO 9706: 1994, Information et documentation - Papier pour documents Prescriptions pour la permanence’. The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of ‘ISO 9706: 1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents Requirements for permanence’. © Philadelphia Museum of Art: The George W.


Illustration cover: Paul Cézanne, Mont Sainte-Victoire (1902-4). Freeman, Sjef Houppermans et Paul Pelckmans Leaving Parnassus The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and RimbaudįAUX TITRE 296 Etudes de langue et littérature françaises publiées sous la direction de Keith Busby, M.J.
