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poet maudit. When French poet Paul Verlaine published his first collection of essays in 1884, he called it Les poetes maudits. Maudit means cursed or miserable in French, but Verlaine was not referring to poets whose writing was miserable or accursed. He meant great poets like Rimbaud and Mallarmé, ignored or looked down upon, the victims of ignorant readers and hostile critics. His book of essays, and another of the same title in 1888, contributed the phrase poet maudit to French and finally to English. |