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
John Harris (poet) died in 1884 having requested that he should be buried at Treslothan Chapel, near the village of Troon. There has been some revival of interest in his work, and recently, the book "The Cornish Poet" was brought out by the John Harris Society, containing his collected works. John Harris (poet) John Harris FRHS (1820–1884) was a Cornish poet. He became a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in April 1879 for being ″"distinguished in letters"″. Harris was born and raised in a two-bedroom cottage on the slopes of Bolenowe, a small hamlet near Camborne, Cornwall, in England. He was the