L arte poetica paul verlaine biography
L arte poetica paul verlaine biography
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Paul Verlaine
The French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent, Paul-Marie Verlaine, was born in Metz, 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, who was an infantry captain, Verlaine entered the civil service.
As a young boy, Verlaine had read Charles Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal, which inspired him to write.
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In Paris, he befriended Parnassian poets, such as Leconte de Lisle, Théodore de Banville, Louis Xavier de Ricard, Catulle Mendès, and François Cippée. Together, they frequented ale houses on 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.
Though Verlaine married a young woman in 1870 and had son with her, he abandoned that relationship for another affair. La bonne chanson was written to his wife Mathilde Mauté de