Show eccentricities of genius paul verlaine a modern french poet was a genius whose life was passed in alternate stages nt religious ecstasy ecstacy and deplorable excesses after 1870 be led the traditional bohemian life in paris then disappeared for eleven years tears in he appeared in the public eye as a quasi catholic with his Sage esc perhaps his bet best known work from tills this time to his death in 1890 1896 Veil alne remained except tor for brief intervals among the cafes of 0 the latin un lor drinking absinthe carousing and writing verse and jour articles |