Prison

Prison (FR) Prison. Fauré's setting (1894, Op. 83, #1) for voice and piano of the sixth poem (untitled) in the third sub-section of Sagesse (Wisdom, 1881) by Verlaine. The narrator's point of view is that of Verlaine himself, who spent nearly two years in prison in Mons, Belgium, for shooting his protégé / lover Rimbaud. The manuscript is headed: »Bruxelles, Petits Carmes [prison], September 1873, minimum security.« Verlaine writes: » Over the wall and in front of my window [I had a window, a…