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Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine’s first published poem, "Monsieur Prudhomme," appeared in 1863.1
While he had written earlier works—most notably sending his first extant poem, "La Mort," to Victor Hugo at the age of 14—it was not until 1863 that his verse began to appear in literary reviews.1