保羅·魏爾倫（Paul Verlaine，1844-1896年）是一名法國詩人。是象徵主義派別的早期領導人。象徵主義者嘗試把詩歌從傳統的題材和形式中脫離出來。魏爾倫的詩歌以優雅、精美且富有音樂性而著稱。他在梅斯出生，1871年在巴黎時深受年輕詩人亞瑟·蘭波影響。與妻子分居後，他和蘭波過上了放蕩不羈的生活，並淪落成酒鬼。1873年在與蘭波爭吵時開槍打傷了他，因此被判入獄兩年。
Paul-Marie Verlaine (; French: [vɛʁlɛn(ə)]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
Biography
Early life
Born in Metz, Verlaine was educated at the Lycée Impérial Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Leconte de Lisle. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: Anatole France, Emmanuel Chabrier, inventor-poet and humorist Charles Cros, the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Théodore de Banville, François Coppée, Jose-Maria de Heredia, Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendes and others. Verlaine's first published collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality.