{"product_id":"the-good-song-paul-verlaine-9781955392280","title":"The Good Song","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Good Song \u003c\/em\u003e(originally \u003cem\u003eLa Bonne Chanson\u003c\/em\u003e) was the third book of poetry written by French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896). Originally published in 1870, \u003cem\u003eThe Good Song\u003c\/em\u003eʼs theme is love. More particularly its theme is love for, and anticipation of marriage with, his future child-wife, Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville. It includes all the concomitant feelings one might expect from the poet: love, joy, elation, doubt, fear, nuptial desire or passion, to name only a few. Their romance took place with the Franco-Prussian War in the background. Having appeared during the war, it was according to Victor Hugo \"a flower in a shell.\" It represented, according to Edmond Lepelletier, a \"transformation,\" a \"change in poetic matter\" and \"a transition piece... the passage from objective, descriptive, plastic, externalized poetry to personal expression, to a confession of the soul, to the notation of battles of the heart or excitations of the brain.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluded with this translation, in the appendix, is an extant excerpt of chapter VII, \"Marriage - \u003cem\u003eThe Good Song\u003c\/em\u003e (1869-1871)\" from Edmond Lepelletierʼs \"official\" biography of Paul Verlaine: \u003cem\u003ePaul Verlaine: His Life, His Work\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Verlaine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955392285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955392280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sunny Lou Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d","brand":"Paul Verlaine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136954806527,"sku":"9781955392280","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06843583-2608-4138-93a7-91ad986920d8.jpg?v=1770165569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-good-song-paul-verlaine-9781955392280","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}