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  • Collected Poems and Other Verse

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'sense too definite cancels your indistinct literature' Stéphane Mallarmé was the most radically innovative of nineteenth-century poets. His writings, with their richly sensuous texture and air of slyly intangible mystery, perplexed or outraged many early readers; yet no writer has more profoundly influenced the course of modern poetry - in English as well as in French. In both form and content, ... Read more

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  • Azure

    Poems and Selections from the "Livre"

    Series series Wesleyan Poetry Series
    During his lifetime, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 – 1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying form and content in revolutionary ways that departed drastically from the more tightly controlled French tradition. Despite his status as one of the first modernists, much of Mallarmé's radicalism has ... Read more

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  • Selected Poetry and Prose

    The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.Selected Poetry and Prose of Stéphane Mallarmé presents what can be considered the essential work of the renowned “father of the Symbolists.” Mallarmé’s major elegies, sonnets, and other verse, including excerpts from the dialogue “Hériodiade,” are all assembled here with the French and English texts en face. Also ... Read more

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  • Divagations

    Translated by Barbara E. Johnson ...
    "This is a book just the way I don't like them," the father of French Symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: "scattered and with no architecture." On the heels of this caveat, Mallarmé's diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forth--and proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most.The salmagundi of prose ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Translated by Wyatt Mason ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
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  • The Flowers of Evil

    (Les Fleurs du mal)

    On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire’s birth comes this stunning landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry.Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern ... Read more

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  • Poems - Emile Verhaeren

    Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916) who, along with his contemporaries Maurice Maeterlinck, Georges Rodenbach, Albert Mockel, Charles van Lerberghe and Max Elskamp, helped to define the Symbolist movement, is one of Belgium's most venerated and admired francophone poets. Dubbed the 'European Walt Whitman', he was a pro-European idealist whose poetry explores his all-consuming notion of mankind advancing ... Read more

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  • Poems Under Saturn

    Poèmes saturniens

    by Paul Verlaine ...
    Translated by Karl Kirchwey ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poemsPoems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, ... Read more

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  • Flowers of Evil

    A Selection

    Translated by Christopher Mattison ...
    Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.Flowers of Evil: A ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems

    Ronsard is considered one of France's greatest love poets, yet his poetic achievements are not restricted to his verses of love, wine and nature. A true Renaissance figure, his themes ranged from politics, science and philsophy, to the bawdy and risqué. Using Greco-Roman and Italian poetic models, and drawing on the rich images of classical mythology, Ronsard revolutionised the tradition of French ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of René Char

    by Rene Char ...
    Translated by Mary Ann Caws ...
    “This is a fine, bilingual edition of the works of one of the great French Surrealists. . . . The translations, by several hands, serve Char well—full of insinuating rhythms and unusual verbal couplings, they come close to the piercing beauty of the originals.” —Pat Monaghan, BooklistThe Selected Poems of René Char is a comprehensive, bilingual overview reflecting the poet’s wide stylistic and ... Read more

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  • Festivals of Patience

    The Verse Poems of Arthur Rimbaud

    Translated by Brian Stefans ...
    Poet of "logical revolts," of sexual freedom, inveterate modernist, Symbolist, and inspiration to beatniks, conceptual artists and punks, Arthur Rimbaud wrote some of the most enduring poems of world literature. His career lasted all of five years, between 1870-1875. Here is a collection of all of his poems in verse, in a new English translation by American poet Brian Kim Stefans. With Rimbaud's ... Read more

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