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French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth cen.!
Paul Verlaine
Biography
The French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul-Marie Verlaine was born in Metz, Northeast France on March 30, 1844.
His family moved to Paris in 1851, where he was enrolled in the lycée. In 1862, he received his bachelor's degree, then following the wishes of his father, an infantry captain, entered civil service.
As a young boy Verlaine had read Charles Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, inspiring him to write.
Origin of his own voice.
In Paris, he befriended Parnassian poets such as Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Louis Xavier de Ricard, Catulle Mendès, and François Cippée, and together they frequented ale houses of the Rue Soufflot. Captain Verlaine refused to finance his son's drinking and writing habits.
In 1866, Verlaine published his first book of poetry, Poèmes saturniens. As a young boy he had loved Elisa Dehee, an orphan cousin that the Verlaine family had raised, and his second book, Fêtes galantes, was published in 1869 after her death.
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