Lot n° 237
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VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896). - Lot 237
VERLAINE Paul (1844-1896).
COLLECTION of 56 autographed POEMS signed "P. Verlaine" or "Paul Verlaine", 1891-1895; 65 pages of various papers and formats, mounted on tabs or with window; the whole bound in a square in-8 volume, lavaliere morocco, covers with a repeating pattern (red flower with green leaves) mosaic in a frame of sand and dark brown morocco listels, spine titled gold decorated with listel boxes of the same, sandy morocco lining set with a gilt fillet and framed with green and dark brown listels, green silk endpapers, double marbled paper endpapers, guilloche headpieces, wavy fillet on the edges, gilt edges on witnesses, bordered case (Noulhac rel. 1924- Mad. Noulhac del.).
Exceptional set of 56 poems used for the edition of the Œuvres posthumes.
The Varia section of the Œuvres posthumes at Messein in 1903 contains 68 poems, 56 of which were edited after our collection.
Several appeared in reviews, but very few in volume. The poems are all signed, unless otherwise stated, quite often dated, and most of them bear in the margin the title of the forthcoming collection Varia, and sometimes that of Femmes, in view of a new edition. They present variants, and most of them bear erasures and corrections. We refer to the edition of the Œuvres poétiques complètes of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (Pl.).
1. in 187..., January 15, 1891 (1 p. in-8). "The park laughs of sifted rays,/of kisses, of bursts of women's voices"... 6 quatrains (Pl. p. 543).
2. Rotterdam", 9bre 1892 (1 p. in-8). " After he crossed first the green lands/Floods of regular water "... 5 quatrains (Pl. p. 983).
3-4. Le Charme du Vendredi Saint I et II. Two pieces of 4 quatrains, each dated at the top : I Paris, Thursday March 30, 1893 " The cathedral is admirably gray/While the day gleams adorably "... II Friday, March 31, 1893 "The crazy sun of March awakens a little more the greenery/The fine trees of the quay bordering the pure beauty"... (2 p. in-8, Pl. p. 986-87).
5. spring impression,May 1, 1893 (1 p. ¼ small in-4). "There are days - have you noticed? -/On which one feels lighter than a bird"... 5 quatrains (Pl. p 988 ), with a clipping of the pre-original with correction and annotation : Impressions de printemps published in Le Boul'Mich of July 151893.
6. Souvenir of 19 9bre 1893, Dieppe-Newhaven (1 p. ½ in-8). "My heart is as big as the sea,/Who exiles himself from the loved one!"... 9 tercets, three of which are heavily crossed out (Pl. p. 1005).
7. return, with note in margin : " (as a counterpart to Mon cœur est gros comme la mer) " (2 p. in-4), " La mer est douce comme un cœur/And I return to the fatherland.../La mer est forte comme un cœur "... 16 tercets and a verse (forgotten in the Pléiade!, Œuvres posthumes, p. 67).
8. to Ph..., end of August 1893 Broussais hospital (1 p. small in-4). "Since these two weeks/Where I almost died"... 6 quatrains (Pl. p. 991).
9. " I saw again, almost triumphant "... (2 p. in-12). Unsigned draft of this poem of five sizains, collected in Epigrams (XVI, v, Mons), conceived while revisiting the prison of Mons, during his arrival in Belgium for his 1893 conferences. "I saw again, almost triumphant,/The city where these months of shadow were waiting for me"... Numerous erasures and corrections (Pl. p. 267).
10-13. Inseparables, suite of 4 sonnets published under the title Cordialités¸ marked by Verlaine in the corner (4 pages oblong in-8) : I to Ernest Delahaye : " In this Paris where one is neighbor and so far/L'un de l'autre que c'est une craie infortune "...II "Two Parisian hummingbirds, two gossipers/Without ceasing to say the false ones and the chalk/New"..., III For a festival "Imperial, since Eugénie! and very soft/Since itself and very royal, since me!"..., IV For the people buried in the Pantheon "Dead of side, much ash, some bones"... (Pl. p. 994-996).
14 Rendez-vous (1 p. in-8, unsigned). "Dans la chambre encor sépulcrale/De l'encor fatale maison"...5 quatrains, first shorter version of the piece VI de Hombres, bearing the same title (Pl. 1223).
15. seriously (1 p. in-8), intended for Women. An alternative title Féroce is added in pencil (which will be adopted in the Œuvres posthumes). 4 quatrains and a verse : " Tu m'as vu mourant presque/Ou plutôt presque mort "... (Pl. p. 1013).
16-19. Apaisement II-V, Hôpital Broussais 7bre 93. (4 p. in-8, the last one dated and signed). 4 pieces numbered from II to V, published under the title Contre la jalousie (renumbered I-IV). II "Jealousy is multiform/In its monotonous bitterness"... 6 quatrains. III "Besides jealousy is stupid/First of all it is useless"... 3 septains. IV "Bah! trust or jealousy! / Idle words and impious things"..., sonnet. V "And why this love of which more than one fool is astonished/Who would better live before being astonished"... 3 quatrains (Pl. p. 997-999).
20. retreat, [October 1893]. (1 p. in-8). "We isolate ourselves
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