Proses lyriques

Proses lyriques (FR) Lyrical Prose-Poems. Debussy's settings (1892 / 93) for voice and piano of four of his own poems that were published in the revue Entretiens politiques et littéraires in Dec. 1892. The language is extremely ornate (some would say overdone), in the then-pervasive Symbolist style, showing the influence of Régnier, to whom Debussy showed the poems, resulting in Régnier getting the first two published; Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), who wrote of »Dimanche, the ever-spleen day«…