verlaine

John Milton Thomas Campion Samuel Taylor Coleridge Robert Bridges Ted Hughes Seamus Heaney Charles Baudelaire Paul Verlaine Edgar Allan Poe...

Crime also gives you a more interesting subject to write about than University life - it was good enough for Verlaine and Rimbaud.

Did Verlaine have a lifetime paid appointment to not create any poetry?

But from a longer time horizon, nobody really cares about those people in the 1950s having to support Peter Higgs living, or about people not having Verlaine in the army.

From that comes the "de la musique avant toute chose" of Verlaine and the symbolism contemporary to Wilde.

Likewise, at the time Verlaine, it would be more productive if he was just sent to war.

Look at history of art - most artists were just alcoholic bums, such as Verlaine.

He wanted to make poetry that was aural, musical-let us say like the poetry of Tennyson, or of Verlaine, whom he loved and admired so.

What about Dumas, Stendhal, Balzac, Zolya, Flaubert, Maupassant, George Sand, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Valery???!

Look into the lives of Caravaggio, Milton, Voltaire, Wilde, Verlaine, Goya, Balzac, Courbet, Rimbaud, Schubert, Manet, Wagner, Dickens, Zola, Tolstoy...

From that comes the "de la musique avant toute chose" of Verlaine and the symbolism contemporary to Wilde.

Likewise, at the time Verlaine, it would be more productive if he was just sent to war.

Look at history of art - most artists were just alcoholic bums, such as Verlaine.

He wanted to make poetry that was aural, musical-let us say like the poetry of Tennyson, or of Verlaine, whom he loved and admired so.