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
John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (poet) John Holloway (1 August 1920 – 29 August 1999) was an English poet, critic and academic. Born in Croydon, South London and educated at the County School at Beckenham in Kent and the University of Oxford (New College), he served in the Royal Artillery and Intelligence during the Second World War and then pursued an academic career. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from 1946–60 and of Queens' College, Cambridge from 1955–82, becoming a Life Fellow on his retirement. He held a post as Lecturer in English at Aberdeen University (1949–54), and then moved