Editing Paul Verlaine (section)

===Relationships with Rimbaud and Létinois===
[[File:Arthur Rimbaud plaque.JPG|thumb|right|Plaque in [[Brussels]]]]
[[File:Paul Verlaine.jpeg|thumb|Paul Verlaine in 1893; photograph by [[Otto Wegener]]]]
Verlaine returned to Paris in August 1871, and, in September, received the first letter from fellow poet [[Arthur Rimbaud]], who admired his poetry. Verlaine urged Rimbaud to come to Paris, and by 1872, he had lost interest in Mathilde, and effectively abandoned her and their son, preferring the company of Rimbaud, who was by now his lover.<ref name=litweb /> Rimbaud and Verlaine's stormy affair took them to London in 1872. In Brussels in July 1873, in a drunken, jealous rage, Verlaine fired two shots with a pistol at Rimbaud, wounding his left wrist, though not seriously injuring the poet. As an indirect result of this incident, Verlaine was arrested and imprisoned at [[Mons, Belgium|Mons]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Willsher|first=Kim|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/18/paul-verlaine-new-exhibition-mons|title=How 555 nights in jail helped to make Paul Verlaine a 'prince of poets'|date=2015-10-17|work=The Observer|access-date=2020-03-31|language=en-GB|issn=0029-7712}}</ref> where he underwent a re-conversion to [[Roman Catholicism]], which again influenced his work and provoked Rimbaud's sharp criticism.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hanson, Ellis.|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/502187924|title=Decadence and Catholicism.|date=1998|publisher=Harvard University Press|isbn=0-674-19444-6|oclc=502187924}}</ref>

The poems collected in ''Romances sans paroles'' (1874) were written between 1872 and 1873, inspired by Verlaine's nostalgically coloured recollections of his life with Mathilde on the one hand and impressionistic sketches of his on-again off-again year-long escapade with Rimbaud on the other. ''Romances sans paroles'' was published while Verlaine was imprisoned. Following his release from prison, Verlaine again travelled to England, where he worked for some years as a teacher, teaching French, Latin, Greek and drawing at [[William Lovell Church of England Academy|William Lovell's school]] in [[Stickney, Lincolnshire|Stickney]] in Lincolnshire.<ref>{{cite web
 |title      = Paul Verlaine
 |last       = Delahave
 |first      = Ernst
 |publisher  = Martin and Bev Gosling
 |year       = 2006
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From there he went to teach in nearby [[Boston, Lincolnshire|Boston]], before moving to [[Bournemouth]].<ref>{{cite web
 |title        = Biography of Paul Verlaine
 |last         = Delahave
 |first        = Ernst
 |publisher    = The Left Anchor
 |date         = 22 May 2010
 |url          = http://www.theleftanchor.com/2010/05/biography-of-paul-verlaine.html
 |access-date   = 2010-09-05
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20130512174042/http://www.theleftanchor.com/2010/05/biography-of-paul-verlaine.html
 |archive-date = 12 May 2013
 |url-status     = dead}}</ref> While in England, he produced another successful collection, ''Sagesse''. Verlaine returned to France in 1877 and, while teaching English at a school in [[Rethel]], fell in love with one of his pupils, Lucien Létinois, who inspired Verlaine to write further poems.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lucien-Letinois|title=Lucien Létinois {{!}} French author|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-03-31}}</ref> Verlaine was devastated when Létinois died of [[typhus]] in 1883.