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Biography of Paul Marie Verlaine
Name: Paul Marie Verlaine
Birth Date: March 30, 1844
Death Date: January 8, 1896
Place of Birth: Metz, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet
Paul Marie Verlaine
The French poet Paul Marie Verlaine (1844-1896), one of the most exquisite lyric poets in the history of French literature, ranks with Rimbaud and Mallarmé as one of the major French symbolists of the 19th century.Paul Verlaine was born in Metz on March 30, 1844. He was the son of an army captain. Verlaine attended the Lycée Bonaparte (today Lycée Condorcet) in Paris, where his favorite subjects were French and Latin. At the age of 14, he sent Victor Hugo his earliest known poem, La Mort. By 1862, the year he received his baccalaureate degree, Verlaine had already developed a disastrous taste for drink that marred his life. In 1866 he published his first collection of verse under a title apparently borrowed from Baudelaire: Poèmes saturniens. Nevermore, Mon rêve familierand especially Chanson d'automne revealed the lovely lyricism and delicate sadness characteristic of many of Verlaine's best …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…during his lifetime for the beauty and delicacy of his finest verse, for his association with Arthur Rimbaud, and for his generally dissipated and vagabond existence. In his last years "le Pauvre Lèlian," as he called himself from an anagram of his name, was considered a picturesque incarnation of the decadent poet. Further Reading English translators of Verlaine's poetry include Ashmore Wingate and C. F. Maclntyre. Harold Nicolson, Paul Verlaine (1921), and Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, Verlaine: Fool of God (1957), are biographies. Antoine Adam's fine study of Verlaine was translated by Carl Morse and published as The Art of Paul Verlaine (1963). Marcel Raymond, From Baudelaire to Surrealism (trans. 1950; new ed. 1970), is an authoritative study of the forces that shaped modern French poetry and includes a useful critique of Verlaine.Nicolson, Harold George, Sir, Paul Verlaine, New York: AMS Press, 1980. Verlaine, Paul, Confessions of a poet, Westport, Conn.: Hyperion Press, 1979.
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