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Which poets did Paul Verlaine meet through the Parnassian group?
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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 frequented literary cafés and drawing rooms in Paris, where he met many of the leading poets associated with the Parnassian group and other talented contemporaries. Among those he encountered were:
These interactions occurred as Verlaine began his career, during which time his poems were published in literary reviews alongside those of his contemporaries. By 1866, his work was included in the first series of Le Parnasse contemporain, the anthology from which the Parnassian group derived its name.21