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A portrait by his friend Edmond Aman-Jean, 1892." src="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Broussais_AmanJeanVerlaine1.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="275" /></a><em>VERLAINE’S FIRST ACQUAINTANCE WITH hospital life was the short period which, in 1885, he spent in the Hôpital Tenon. This palatial edifice in the Menilmontant quarter was where Verlaine was to serve his months of ‘apprenticeship’ in the business. </em></p> <p><em>The real centre of his hospital life was, however, to be the Hôpital Broussais, in the rue Didot, which he first entered in December 1886. Verlaine always had a weakness for this particular hospital. It consisted of a series of wide-spreading huts connected by arcades and supported upon wooden piles. One had the sense of camping-out in the country: of being in a way, adventurius:and one lost the galling impression of existing as no more than a burden to the earth: a weight upon the charity of the ‘Assistance Publique.’ </em></p> <p><em><a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/001-rothenstein.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-13878 size-thumbnail" title="Verlaine in the Broussais, 1893. By Wm Rothenstein." src="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/001-rothenstein-150x101.jpg" alt="001-rothenstein" width="150" height="101" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/001-rothenstein-150x101.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/001-rothenstein-300x202.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/001-rothenstein.jpg 593w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>‘And then there was Doctor Chauffard, who was always ready to shut one of his two kindly eyes, and the arcades to smoke under, and the green lamp beside his sleepless bed at night-time, and the sound of the ‘ceinture’ trains, and the ‘Get up, lazy’ of the nurses in the morning.’<br /> </em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>– Harold Nicolson, in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1141377373?ie=UTF8&tag=fortnireview-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1141377373">Paul Verlaine</a><img loading="lazy" class="fwbsxbfhoyuctoqnxseu" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fortnireview-20&l=as2&o=1&a=1141377373" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> (1921).</em></p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p><span id="more-1107"></span></p> <p>RETIREMENT</p> <p>Paris leaves you stranded, notwithstanding<br /> Grim accommodations with its circus<br /> Of error, its brute luxury, and the justified rage<br /> Of the poor — so goes our great society<br /> Born in the storm of ’89–<br /> Yes indeed, new old Paris leaves you stranded.<br /> I’m too much the old-school Parisian<br /> To cope with today — old habits die hard.<br /> Still, to handle the hellish noise, the abject sun,<br /> I’ve tried to wear a heart roughly like mine.<br /> You, poor battered souls, grief beyond your years —<br /> But toddlers at heart, out of your depth —<br /> Dry your tears, make earnest supplication<br /> For a future a touch more benign.<br /> Forget daft plans, adventures; just sleep,<br /> Deaf to the white noise of vehicles and creeps.</p> <p> </p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>RETRAITE.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>On s’isole à Paris—quelle que soit l’horreur<br /> Apparente de vivre en ce cirque d’erreur,<br /> De luxe dur et des trop plausibles rancunes<br /> Du pauvre y voyant rouge—ainsi vont nos fortunes<br /> Sociales, depuis ce bon Quatre-vingt-neuf.<br /> Oui, l’on s’isole, même en le laid Paris neuf.<br /> Moi, vieux parisien, je ne puis: l’habitude!<br /> Mais j’ai tenté, pour fuir l’âpre disquiétude<br /> De tous ces bruits méchants, et de ce plat soleil,<br /> D’habiter dans un cœur qui soit au mien pareil.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Pauvre cœur douloureux, vieux de deuils, non point d’âge,<br /> Etant restés bien trop enfants pour tant d’usage,<br /> Ah, consolez vos peurs passés, pieusement<br /> Priez Dieu qu’il vous fasse un présent plus clément<br /> Et, sans rêves, dormez à deux, las d’aventures,<br /> Loin du bruit amorti des sots et des voitures!</em></p> <p> </p> <p>FEARS</p> <p>My Lord Jesus, know how sincerely I repent<br /> The crimes, the many crimes<br /> Of my abominable apostasy —<br /> Please, forgive me.</p> <p>For crimes they were — the spirit was weak,<br /> Floundering, tepid, then worse<br /> When finally my faith went cold; prayer<br /> Gave no warmth. So then, alas, the easy options</p> <p>As my lazy spirit drifted, benumbed<br /> On Arctic floes, tracked<br /> By beasts and prowlers.</p> <p>But, your great victory over my demons<br /> Cancelled, the old despair you saved me from<br /> Was at my throat again, and ingloriously</p> <p>I fetched up here, hopeless, neglectful of<br /> Contrition, forgetting you’d set me<br /> Back on the narrow path —<br /> Made too treacherous perhaps</p> <p>By my exuberant pride<br /> (Me, touched by grace!).<br /> Choked with flesh,<br /> Frozen, mortified, I repent.</p> <p>Yet what if I go wrong?<br /> Deliver this wretch from temptation,<br /> O Lord, and bring peace again<br /> To your cloistered servant, Paul Verlaine.</p> <p> </p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>CRAINTES.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Jésus, mon sincère retour<br /> Après la fuite abominable,<br /> Pourra-t-il expier un jour<br /> Les crimes dont je suis coupable?</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Crimes surtout, crimes d’esprit:<br /> Doutes, tiédeurs et sécheresses,<br /> Ma foi caduque ne les prit<br /> Pas en oraison. Le paresses</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Vinrent et vinrent les froideurs,<br /> Las! et la désertion toute.<br /> Depuis rôdeurs et maraudeurs<br /> Furent mes compagnons de route.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Quand le Malheur qui me sauva,<br /> Aux grands jours de votre victoire<br /> Sur me démons, se retrouva<br /> Devant moi, témoin de ma gloire</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>D’alors et de ma honte ici,<br /> Qui me ramena dans la voie<br /> Où j’allai, contrit et transi;<br /> Mais peut-être, hélas! que ma joie</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>De me croire en grâce rentré<br /> Exulte à tort, et qu’il se mêle<br /> A mon repentir franc, navré<br /> Pourtant, de la chose charnelle.</em></p> <p style="padding-left: 60px;"><em>Ah, Seigneur, si je me trompais?<br /> J’ai tant peur des tours de l’Immonde!<br /> Ah oui, pour encor votre paix<br /> Encor moi sequestré du monde! </em></p> <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #800000;">♦</span></p> <hr /> <p style="text-align: center;"> <p><em><a href="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/01_Verlaine-Broussais.jpg"><img loading="lazy" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13882" src="http://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/01_Verlaine-Broussais-150x111.jpg" alt="01_Verlaine-Broussais" width="150" height="111" srcset="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/01_Verlaine-Broussais-150x111.jpg 150w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/01_Verlaine-Broussais-300x223.jpg 300w, https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/01_Verlaine-Broussais.jpg 500w" sizes="(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px" /></a>Note: </em>These poems were published in French versions in the <em>Fortnightly Review </em>in April 1894. This is their first appearance in English.</p> <p><em>The translator:</em> Martin Sorrell is Emeritus Professor of French at Exeter University, where he teaches an MA course on Literary Translation. He has published widely in the field of translation, including three volumes in the Oxford University Press World’s Classics series, and the first substantial anthology of modern French poetry by women. He has won tranlsation prizes, and has also received an award for one of the radio plays he has written for the BBC. American readers can use the following link to order Prof Sorrell’s translation of Verlaine’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199554013?ie=UTF8&tag=fortnireview-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0199554013">Selected Poems</a><img loading="lazy" class="fwbsxbfhoyuctoqnxseu" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=fortnireview-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0199554013" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" />. British and European readers can follow <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0199554013?ie=UTF8&tag=thefortrevi-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=0199554013">this link</a><img loading="lazy" class="fwbsxbfhoyuctoqnxseu" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=thefortrevi-21&l=as2&o=2&a=0199554013" alt="" width="1" height="1" border="0" /> to order the collection.</p> <p><em>An interesting comment</em> on the lithographic version of Aman-Jean’s Verlaine portrait is made on poet Neil Philip’s <a href="http://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/2009/07/poete-maudit.html">Adventures in the Print Trade </a>blog. Neil Philip’s post also includes a translation of Verlaine’s “Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit…” as well as a link to <a href="http://textetc.com">TextEtc</a>‘s discussion of Verlaine translations, <a href="http://www.textetc.com/workshop/wt-verlaine-1.html">here</a> and <a href="http://www.textetc.com/workshop/wt-verlaine-2.html">here</a>.</p> </div> <div class="entry-meta"> This Fortnightly Review article is filed under the following rubrics: <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/bookspub/" rel="category tag">Books & Publishing</a>, <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/poetry-fiction/" rel="category tag">Poetry & Fiction</a>, <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/poetry-and-prose-in-translation/" rel="category tag">Poetry and prose in translation</a>, <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/principal-articles/" rel="category tag">Principal Articles</a>, <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/category/the-fortnightly-review-of-books/" rel="category tag">The Fortnightly Review of Books</a>. <br> Publication: <abbr class="published" title="2010-06-03T10:47:38+0200">Thursday, 3 June 2010, at 10:47</abbr>.<br>Options: Archive for <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/tag/martin-sorrell/" rel="tag">Martin Sorrell</a>, <a href="https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/tag/paul-verlaine/" rel="tag">Paul Verlaine</a>. 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