Paul Verlaine Much of the French poetry produced during the "fin de siècle" was characterized as "decadent" for its lurid content or moral vision. In a similar vein, Verlaine used the expression "poète maudit" ("cursed poet") in 1884 to refer to a number of poets like Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Aloysius Bertrand, Comte de Lautréamont or Alice de Chambrier, who had fought against poetic conventions and suffered social rebuke or were ignored by the critics. But with the publication of Jean Moréas' "Symbolist Manifesto" in 1886, it was the term symbolism which was most often applied to the new literary environment. Along
Marula (poet) now extant. The following verse is about a woman separated from her lover: Marula (poet) Marula (IAST: Mārulā; fl. 13th century or earlier) was a Sanskrit-language poetess from present-day India. Her verses are included in early medieval Sanskrit anthologies, including Sharngadhara's "Paddhati" and Jalhana's "Suktimuktavali". Marula's verses are included in Sanskrit anthologies such as Jalhana's "Suktimuktavali" (13th century) and Sharngadhara's "Paddhati" (14th century). So, she must have lived in the 13th century or earlier, although her exact period is not certain. She must have been a famous poet of her time, for a verse attributed to Dhanadadevas in Sharngadhara's "Paddhati"