Cursed poems: classics of cursed poetry

Cursed Poems: Classics of Cursed Poetry.

Under the name of cursed poets falls a large number of authors from different literary movements: decadentism, romanticism, gothic, although in reality the number of original cursed poets, that is, those cited in Paul Verlaine’s essay: The cursed poets (Les Poètes maudits), does not exceed a dozen.

Verlaine was the one who assigned the qualities of cursed poetry, that is, its main characteristics. The most important one affirms that the genius of certain authors was also their curse, distancing them from society and altering their style towards forms that can be confused with a grotesque view of the world.

In this sense, cursed poetry is defined by the lifestyle of those who performed it: hermetic, secluded, self-destructive, tragic personalities. Many people could fall under that classification, however, to be a cursed poet it is necessary that all of them be a consequence of genius, that is, of an unusual talent that leads the individual towards the most inhospitable regions of the soul.

In this section of we will give an account of the best cursed poems, an opinion as subjective as it is valid in this provocative field of literature.

Collection of cursed poems.

10 cursed love poems. To Elena (To Helen, Edgar Allan Poe) To the Aaraaf (Al Aaraaf, Edgar Allan Poe) To one in the morning (À une heure du matin, Charles Baudelaire) To the river (To the River, Edgar Allan Poe) To solitude (To Solitude, John Keats) To the reader (Au lecteur, Charles Baudelaire) Alchemy of pain (Alchimie de la douleur, Charles Baudelaire) Deceitful love (L’Amour du mensonge, Charles Baudelaire) Amor Profanus (Amor Profanus, Ernest Dowson) Anademas of Beauty (Anadem’s of Beauty, John Barlas) Annabel Lee (Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe) Ballad of the Reading Gaol (The Ballad of the Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde) Each with his chimera (Chacun sa chimère, Charles Baudelaire ) Song (Song, Edgar Allan Poe) Songs of Maldoror (Les chants de Maldoror, Conde de Lautréamont) Songs of Maldoror II (Les chants de Maldoror) Songs of Maldoror III (Les chants de Maldoror) Songs of Maldoror IV (Les chants de Maldoror) Letters and poems (Count de Lautréamont) Beer (Beer, Charles Bukowski) De Profundis Clamavi (From the depths I call you, Charles Baudelaire) You wish to be loved (Thou Wouldst Be Loved?, Edgar Allan Poe) Don Juan in hell (Don Juan aux enfers, Charles Baudelaire) Love and the skull (L’amour et le crâne, Charles Baudelaire) The dance of the hanged men (Bal des pendus, Arthur Rimbaud) The twilight of the night (Le Crépuscule du soir, Charles Baudelaire) The Raven (The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe) The Happiest Day (Edgar Allan Poe) Eldorado (Eldorado, Edgar Allan Poe) The Sleeper in the Valley (Le dormeur du val, Arthur Rimbaud) The Conqueror Worm, Edgar Allan Poe) The Garden of Shadows (Ernest Dowson) The Lake (Edgar Allan Poe) The Nightmare Lake (HP Lovecraft) Lethe (Le Léthé) , Charles Baudelaire)The Merry Dead (Le Mort Joyeux, Charles Baudelaire) The New Remorse (Oscar Wilde)The Haunted Palace (The Haunted Palace, Edgar Allan Poe) The Possessed (Le Possédé, Charles Baudelaire) The Taste of nothing (Le Goût du néant, Charles Baudelaire) The dream of a curious man (Le rêve d’un curieux, Charles Baudelaire) The valley of unrest (The Valley of Unrest, EA Poe) The vampire (Le vampire, Charles Baudelaire) Lovers’ wine (Le vin des amants, Charles Baudelaire) Get drunk! (Enivrez-vous!, Charles Baudelaire) In my Craft or Sullen Art, Dylan Thomas) Epigraph for a condemned book (Épigraphe pour un livre condamné, Charles Baudelaire) Written when I understand that I must die (Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die, Robert E. Howard) Spirits of the Dead (Edgar Allan Poe) Eulalia (Eulalie, Edgar Allan Poe) Tragic Fragment (Robert Burns) Fountain of Blood (La fontaine du sang, Charles Baudelaire) Hymn to beauty (Hymne à la Beauté, Charles Baudelaire) Incubus (Le Revenant, Charles Baudelaire) Israfel (Israfel, Edgar Allan Poe) Beauty (La beaute, Charles Baudelaire) The city in the sea ( The City in the Sea, Edgar Allan Poe) The destruction (La destruction, Charles Baudelaire) The Sleeper (Edgar Allan Poe) The Litany of the Seven Kisses (Clark Ashton Smith) The metamorphosis of the vampire (Les Métamorphoses du vampire, Charles Baudelaire) The prayer of a pagan (La Prière d’un païen, Charles Baudelaire) The bells (The Bells, Edgar Allan Poe) The flowers of evil (Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire) The promises of a face (Les Promesses d’un visage, Charles Baudelaire)The tomb of Edgar Poe (Le tombeau d’Edgar Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé) Life in death (La Vie dans la Mort, Théophile Gautier) Lenore (Lenore, Edgar Allan Poe) Litany of Satan (Les Litanies de Satan, Charles Baudelaire)Lilith (Lilith, Aleister Crowley) The irreparable (L’Irréparable, Charles Baudelaire) The benefits of the moon (Les Bienfaits de la lune, Charles Baudelaire) Condemned women (Femmes damnées, Charles Baudelaire) Sick muse (La muse malade, Charles Baudelaire) Gray Nights (Ernest Dowson) Non Sum Qualis eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae (Ernest Dowson) Ode to Melancholy (John Keats) For Someone in the Madhouse (To One in Bedlam, Ernest Dowson) For Annie (To Annie, Edgar Allan Poe) For M- (To M-, Edgar Allan Poe) To End the Judgment of God (Antonin Artaud) Quia Multum amavi (Why I have loved so much, Oscar Wilde) Posthumous remorse (Remords posthume, Charles Baudelaire) Be beautiful and be sad (You are belle! et sois triste!, Charles Baudelaire) Sed Non Saciata (Sed Non Saciata, Charles Baudelaire) Semper Eadem (Semper Eadem, Charles Baudelaire) Serenade (Serenade, Paul Verlaine) Sir Beelzebub (Sir Beelzebub, Edith Sitwell) Soledad (Alone, Edgar Allan Poe) Dreams (Edgar Allan Poe) Fairyland (Faeryland, Edgar Allan Poe) Ulalume (Ulalume, Edgar Allan Poe) Last Word (Last Word, Ernest Dowson) A carrion (Une charogne, Charles Baudelaire) A season in the hell (Une saison en enfer, Arthur Rimbaud) A Dream Within a Dream (Edgar Allan Poe) A Wine of Wizardry, George Sterling) Vampires (Vampires, Ella Wheeler Wilcox) And the death shall have no dominion (And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Dylan Thomas)

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