Fetes Galantes

Name: Fetes Galantes
Author: Paul Verlaine

by Paul Verlaine

Gallant, elegiac poems celebrating natural beauty and sensual pleasure

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Paul Verlaine

French symbolist poet whose Romances sans Paroles and Sagesse are renowned for their musicality and sensory delicacy. His turbulent affair with Rimbaud and his later religious conversion shaped his poetry.

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