First sentence: Whether, as a youth of twenty-two, Verlaine truly felt himself to have been born under the malevolent sign of Saturn, foreboding, this early in his life, of the dual nature of his conflicted personality, or whether this was only the aesthetic, self-indulgent posturing of an adulator of Baudelaire and his "flowers of evil," the fact is, his Poemes saturniens really have very little "saturnine" about them except for the volume's title and a brief self-conscious liminary poem.
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