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Biography

Name: Paul Marie Verlaine
Birth Date: March 30, 1844
Death Date: January 8, 1896
Place of Birth: Metz, France
Place of Death: Paris, France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of Paul Marie Verlaine
520 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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Biography of Paul (Marie) Verlaine
3,009 words, approx. 10 pages
After his death in Paris on 8 January 1896, friends and admirers of Paul Verlaine--including François Coppée, René Sully-Prudhomme, José Maria de Heredia, Jean Richepin, Jean Moréas, Catulle Mendès, and Edmond...


Quotations
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Paul Verlaine Quotes
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Paul-Marie Verlaine ( 1844-03-30 – 1896-01-08 ) was a French Symbolist poet. He is often characterized as a poète maudit and an example of fin-de-siècle decadence in literature . Translations and page-numbers are from Martin Sorrell (trans.)...


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News and Journals
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Parnassus : Poetry in Review
Four Poems by Paul Verlaine
01/01/2008: 1,039 words, approx. 4 pages
IN the summer of 2006, I began to translate a few of my favorite Verlaine poems. What has by now become a complete translation of Verlaine's first book, Poèmes saturniens (Poems Under Saturn), published in 1866, began with the two motivations common to most,...
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New Criterion
Victimized Verlaine.(Review)
06/01/1999: 2,066 words, approx. 7 pages
Is there anything harder to define than poetry? Beyond matters of prosody, imagery, cadence, and such--the mysterious essence and quiddity of poetry? What, for instance, makes the odd verse quintessentially poetic, engraved on the mind, conjuring up voluptuous feelings when we repeat it...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Laurence M. Porter
14,742 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following essay, Porter questions the “musicality” of Verlaine's poetry and discusses his use of language, which makes the reader consider reality in new ways.
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Critical Essay by Susan Taylor-Horrex
8,673 words, approx. 29 pages
Below, Taylor-Horrex analyzes the themes of love, active versus passive modes of loving, and irresponsibility versus responsibility in Verlaine's collections of verse Fêtes galantes and Romances sans paroles.
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Critical Essay by Gretchen Schultz
7,716 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Schultz explores the significance of “Almanach pour l'année passée”compared to the rest of Verlaine's poetic output.
 


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