This essay examines Verlaine’s systematic references to the culinary as they operate semantically in his erotic poetry. While reconnecting with past libertine traditions of sexualized food practices, the poet enters in a productive dialogue with the Nineteenth-Century gastronomic discourse.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques