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Together with Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud, with whom he previously a stormy romantic relationship, Paul Verlaine is one of the very most influential poets of the "fin de siècle". He was one of the greatest staff of the Decadent movement that started in the 1870s, and a head of the "Symbolists". His stylistic inventions brought a new musicality to French poetry; it was he who paved the way for modern poetry using its experiments in free verse and new techniques. Verlaine produced exquisitely crafted verse, conveying the most powerful feelings and appetites. This translation by Gertrude Hall, herself a recognized poet, is among the finest rendering of Verlaine's work in English language.
