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For an analysis of this poem, see this web site. For information about two composers who have set this poem to music, see this web site. The image at left is Picasso's "Le Rêve," found at this web site,

Works
This list is taken from the Books and Writers website page for Verlaine at http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/verlaine.htm

Poèmes saturniens (1866) - Saturnian Poems

Fêtes galantes (1869) - Gallant Festivals

La bonne chanson (1870) - The Good Song

Romances sans paroles (1874) - Songs without Words

Sagesse (1881) - Wisdom

Jadis et maguère (1884) - Recently and Formerly

Les poètes maudits (1884)

Mémoires d'un veuf (1886) - Memories of a Widower

Amour (1888) - Love

Parallèment (1889) - Parallelism

Femmes (1890)

Dédicaces (1890)

Bonheur (1891)

Les uns et les autres (1891)

Mes hôpitaux (1891)

Chansons pour elle (1892)

Liturgies intime (1892)

Mes prisons (1893) - My Prisons

Quinze jours en Hollande (1893)

Confessions (1895)

Chair (1896)

Invectives (1896)

Biography and Criticism:

Adam, Antoine. The art of Paul Verlaine. Tr. Carl Morse. New York: New York University Press, 1963.

Carter, A. E. Paul Verlaine. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1971

--Verlaine, a study in parallels. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1969.

Coulon, Marcel. Poet under Saturn: the tragedy of Verlaine. Tr. Edgell Rickword. Port Washington, N.Y., Kennikat Press, 1970.

Hanson, Lawrence and Elizabeth. Verlaine: prince of poets. New York: Random House, 1958.

Porter, Lawrence M. The crisis of French symbolism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Symons, Arthur. The symbolist movement in literature. London: W. Heinemann, 1899.