Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was a French poet and prominent member of two late-19th-century literary movements: the Symbolists, which sought to express transcendent truths through suggestive diction, ...

VERLAINE: FOOL OF GOD (394 pp.)—Lawrence and Elisabefh Hanson—Random House ($5). Poet Paul Verlaine was the youngest of four children—the three others, stillborn, were kept pickled in bottles by their ...

Tom Verlaine, a founding member of the band Television, has died. He was 73. Verlaine’s death was confirmed by Jesse Paris Smith, Patti Smith’s daughter, in an obituary dated Saturday, Jan. 28 and ...

Paul Verlaine, famed French poet, loved a girl “with a long, pale face, a lisp and a threat of embonpoint.” She had, he said, a capacity for incurable grudges. When Verlaine, jugged for drunkenness, ...