; that is his "The (*) Art of Poetry".
This poet praises a woman with eyes the color of the heavens, evoking "Mystic barcarolles", in "To Clymène". The speaker of one poem by him describes a "springtime in [his] soul" as "Like a flame around a flame"; that poem is titled "Winter has ended". One of his collections opens with a poem describing dreaming of "Persian and papal splendor / Heliogabalus and Sardanapalus!". This poet asked what "deaf child or foolish negro" invented rhyme, in a poem that commands: "Take Eloquence and wring his neck!"; that is his "The (*) Art of Poetry". He described a soul that is like a landscape filled with "masques [and] bergmasques" in one poem. He wrote a poem whose speaker's heart is wounded by "The long sobs / Of the violins / Of Autumn" and coined the term "accursed poets". For 10 points, name this Symbolist poet who wrote "Clair de lune", La bonne chanson, and the Saturnine Poems, the lover of Arthur Rimbaud.
This poet praises a woman with eyes the color of the heavens, evoking "Mystic barcarolles", in "To Clymène".
Paul(-Marie) Verlaine