Paul Verlaine
French poet (1844-1896)
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He shot his teenage lover in Brussels, served time for it, then drank himself into squalor — and still the composers kept setting his verses to music. Verlaine made lyric poetry sound like something you could almost hum, and that musicality outlasted the chaos.
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Born in Metz in 1844 to a petit-bourgeois family, Verlaine published his debut collection Poèmes saturniens at twenty-two through Alphonse Lemerre. His tempestuous affair with Arthur Rimbaud — ten years younger, not yet eighteen, while Verlaine had a wife and infant son — became scandal when the couple wandered England and Belgium until 1873, the year Verlaine wounded Rimbaud with a revolver and drew two years in prison for battery and sodomy. In his cell he returned to Catholicism and wrote Sagesse, Jadis et naguère, and Parallèlement. As his reputation rose, guilt and paranoia pulled him int…
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