保罗·魏尔伦（Paul Verlaine，1844-1896年）是一名法国诗人。是象征主义派别的早期领导人。象征主义者尝试把诗歌从传统的题材和形式中脱离出来。魏尔伦的诗歌以优雅、精美且富有音乐性而著称。他在梅斯出生，1871年在巴黎时深受年轻诗人亚瑟·兰波影响。与妻子分居后，他和兰波过上了放荡不羁的生活，并沦落成酒鬼。1873年在与兰波争吵时开枪打伤了他，因此被判入狱两年。
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.