Leaving Parnassus

The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud

By: Seth Whidden

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Paperback | 1 January 2007

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Leaving Parnassus: The Lyric Subject in Verlaine and Rimbaud considers how the crisis of the lyric subject in the middle of the nineteenth century in France is a direct response to the aesthetic principles of Parnassian poetry, which dominated the second half of the century much more than critics often think. The poets considered here rebel against the strict confines of traditional and contemporary poetry and attempt to create radically new discursive practices. Specifically, the close readings of poems apply recent studies of subjectivity in poetry and focus on the works of Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud to see how each subverts the dominant tradition of French poetry in a unique way. Whereas previous studies considered isolated aspects of each poet's lyric subject, Leaving Parnassus shows that the situation of the lyric is a source of subversion throughout the poets' entire work, and as such it is crucial to our full understanding of their respective innovations.

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Non-Fiction Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Sociology & Anthropology Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture

The dominance of Parnassian poetry	p. 17
Verlaine's identities	p. 45
Melancholia	p. 52
The love-struck subject	p. 69
Verlaine's poetics of indecision	p. 75
After the fall; or, the subject, the sacred, and the profane	p. 92
Favorite positions	p. 107
Toward an aesthetic of decay	p. 115
Rimbaud, beyond time and space	p. 119
"La poesie objective "	p. 122
"Le dereglement de tous les sens"	p. 125
Time and space in Rimbaud's verse poetry	p. 131
Derniers vers : pushing limits, stretching out	p. 138
On "memoire"	p. 168
Time and space, illuminated	p. 179
Hortense found, in time	p. 183
Mouvement	p. 194
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