Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Po tes maudits) was first published in 1888.. Rimbaud, the boy with whom Verlaine had had his infamous affair, Mallarm , and Verlaine himself need little introduction; figures such as Tristan Corbi re and Jules Laforge, a major influence on the poetry of T.S. Eliot, were lesser known at the time, but are now recognized as major figures...