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 Thompson (poet) William Thompson (poet) Rev. William Thompson (1712 - 1766) was an 18th-century English poet. William Thompson was the son of Rev. Francis Thompson, vicar of Brough in Westmoreland, NW England, who died in 1735; William's date of birth is not known. William Thompson studied at Queen's College, Oxford, which his father had also attended, and graduated with a Master of Arts in 1738, afterwards becoming a fellow of the college. Thompson became rector of Hampton Poyle with South Weston in Oxfordshire. He published his collected poems in two volumes in 1757. He is best known for the long poem "Sickness"