Les Poètes maudits (as concept originator)

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Les Poètes maudits (as concept originator) is Paul Verlaine’s influential 1884 critical work that coined and popularized the notion of the “accursed poets” to characterize a group of marginalized, avant-garde French poets.

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instanceOf French-language book
critical work
literary essay collection
associatedWithTheme aesthetic rebellion
bohemian lifestyle
social exclusion of artists
suffering and genius
author Paul Verlaine
coinedConcept accursed poets
coinedTerm poètes maudits
countryOfOrigin France
describesConcept cursed poet figure
marginalized poets
focusesOn bohemian literary life
literary outsider status
marginalization of poets
genre literary criticism
poetry criticism
hasPart essay on Arthur Rimbaud
essay on Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
essay on Pauvre Lelian
essay on Stéphane Mallarmé
essay on Tristan Corbière
essay on Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
influenced concept of the accursed poet in modern literature
myth of the doomed poet
reception of French symbolist poets
language French
literaryHistoricalRole concept originator of the poète maudit category
mainSubject French poetry
avant-garde literature
symbolist poetry
movement Decadentism
surface form: Decadent movement

Symbolism
period late 19th century
portraysAsPoèteMaudit Arthur Rimbaud
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Pauvre Lelian
Stéphane Mallarmé
Tristan Corbière
Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
publicationYear 1884
publisherLocation Paris
selfReferentialPseudonymFor Paul Verlaine
significance contributed to the mythologizing of avant-garde poets
helped canonize the idea of the cursed poet in French culture

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Paul Verlaine describedIn Les Poètes maudits (as concept originator)