Show eccentricities of genius paul verlaine a modern french poet was a genius whose life was wag passed in alternate stages of religious ecstacy and deplorable excesses after 1870 he led the traditional bohemian boh emlon life in paris then disappeared for eleven years in 1881 he appeared in the public eye as a quasi with his sagesse Sa goese geese perhaps his best known work from this time to his death in 1898 1893 verlaine remained except tor for brief intervals among the cafes of the latin quarter drinking absinthe carousing and writing verse and journalistic na riall listic articles |