Paul Verlaine Biography

After the resignation of his father, the family moved to Paris, where the poet’s school years passed. In the year, he graduated from the Lyceum and entered the law faculty of the university. But because of the material problems of the family in the year, he began to work small employees in the insurance company, after in the measure of one of the Parisian districts, and soon in the rural town hall.

He began to write poetry in his school years. One of them - “Death” - sent a year to Victor Hugo. In the city in the second half of the X joined this group. During this period, the poet was interested in rhetoric, foreign languages, read a lot of Sh. Saint-Beva, Sh. Bodler, T. Banville, visited literary salons. A great impression was made by L. But the writer was looking for his own path, different from the objective "one -sided" poetry of the Parnassians.

The book of S. Bodler “Flowers of Evil” gave an impetus to the development of impressionistic impressions, symbolic images. In the 10ths, the collections of Saturnic Poetry and the Exquisite Holidays are released by A. France and V., the general public did not understand Verlen’s poems, for a long time, the popularity bypassed him. In July, the G. July, the collection “Good Song” included works that he dedicated to his wife.

However, the hopes for a happy familiar life did not materialize after March 18 G. Verlaine joined the commune. In February, the strength with which they were written, aroused interest, and in a letter-office Verlaine invited a young man to Paris. Having met, they made friends, and Verlaine, despite the age -related superiority, fell under the influence of a strong nature of Rimbae. Driving in Europe Verlaine and the Rimbae searched - together and separately - his place in art.

During a quarrel in June, Verlain was wounded by A. Rimbo with a shot of a revolver, for which he was convicted by the Brussels court to two years in prison. In addition, the court learned about the poet’s communist past. In prison, he wrote poems that were included in the collection “Romances without Words” is the peak of Verlaine's musicality. In prison, the poet found out that his wife filed for divorce.

When on January 16, G. Feeling Loneliness Verlaine again searched for support from the side of Rimbo and met with him in Srtutgart. This meeting was the last: returning home in a drunk state, they quarreled and arranged a fight on the shores of Neckara. They didn’t see each other anymore. Returning to Paris, and after moving to London, Verlaine tried to establish his life: he taught languages, was engaged in agriculture, but in the end he completely surrendered to literary work.

In the year, the poet turns more and more to God. The religious mood was reflected in his collection “Wisdom” the aesthetic principles of the poet get a perfect form in the collections of the last period “Love”, “Happiness” and “Songs for Her” the writer headed the galaxy of young poets. His poems gained crazy popularity. At the traditional ceremony of the election of the “King of Poets” G.

But the recognition came too late: the writer’s health was shaken. The talented poet was sick and was almost constantly forced to be in hospitals. The writer J. Renar noticed in his diary G.