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Article: Murphy, Steve. Marges du premier Verlaine.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- March 22, 2005
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Murphy, Steve. Marges du premier Verlaine. Romantisme et modernites 71. Paris: Champion, 2003. Pp. 423. ISBN 2-7453-0866-1
Generations of readers have disparaged the literary capacity of Paul Verlaine in the 1880s during a period Main Buisine terms the poet's "descente aux enfers" (Verlaine: Histoire d'un corps, 1995). At the same time, the appreciation of Verlaine's earlier poetry has been closely linked to the notion of the poet as mythical bohemian satyr hobbling from one cafe to another in the Quarrier Latin of the 1880s and '90s. There are exceptions. It is to be noted that Eleonore Zimmermann explored all of Verlaine's periods with insight and care in ...