Verlaine et Rimbaud Verlaine et Rimbaud Verlaine et Rimbaud (English: ""Verlaine and Rimbaud"") is an album by Léo Ferré. It was released in 1964 by Barclay Records. This album is one of the first studio double albums in popular music history (before Bob Dylan's or Frank Zappa's). "Verlaine et Rimbaud" is Ferré's third LP entirely dedicated to a poet, after Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal" (""Flowers of Evil"") in 1957 and "Les Chansons d'Aragon" (""Songs of Aragon"") in 1961. Here, Ferré sets into music 10 poems from Arthur Rimbaud and 14 from Paul Verlaine. He considers their two different kind of poetry as
William Atkinson (poet) William Atkinson (poet) William Atkinson (1757–1846), was an English poet. Atkinson was born at Thorp Arch, in the ainsty of the city of York, in 1757, and was the son of a clergyman. He was admitted a sizar of Jesus College, Cambridge, 29 December 1775, graduated B.A. in 1780, was elected a fellow of his college, and proceeded to the degree of M.A. in 1783. Having taken orders he was appointed lecturer at the parish church of Bradford, in Yorkshire, and subsequently, in 1792, he was presented by the lord chancellor to the rectory of Warham All Saints, in Norfolk.