Lives of the Saints in Verse

Mads "Madman" Mittendorff

1812-1849

Romantic poet (melancholy)

Married to Signe Mittendorff

Romantic poet (sublime)

1828: latter discovers former in the gutter

1829: former returns to same gutter

1830-1838: Mitt tours a variety of gutters

          followed by a stay at

1838-1845: Eastern State Penitentiary

          (embezzlement—"I was framed!")

1846-1848: gutter number one

1849: final gutter