Famed and highly influential French poet (1844-1896) who penned Poèmes saturniens and Romances sans paroles; likewise remembered for his tumultuous love affair with the prodigiously gifted teenage poet Arthur Rimbaud. Autograph poem in French, signed "Paul Verlaine," one page, 5.25 x 8.25, January 30, 1894. Verlaine pens a "Memory of Manchester," celebrating the time he spent in the English city. Verlaine makes note of his “enormous worship” for Shakespeare, whom he extolled during conferences in front of the local intellectual elite, a fact recalled in this poem. In very good to fine condition, with a small hole, a rough left edge, and light toning along the central horizontal fold.
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