Six Nineteenth Century French Poets: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics) (019283973X) - Reviews and Prices
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Six Nineteenth Century French Poets: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics) (019283973X) - Reviews and Prices
'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovative poems explore the complexities of human emotion and ponder the great questions of religion and art. They form as rich a body of work as any one age and language has ever produced. This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarme. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Ugh...:
This is the same duo of "translators" who massacred the poetry of Victor Hugo recently. Wretched English "verse" adaptations insult the originals to their face. Infinitely superior (and more extensive) is THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FRENCH POETRY, which includes faithful and readable prose translations in a similar format.
Ideal for language students:
This book is an ideal introduction to some of the most well-known French poets of the period, and has a section with short biographies on each at the front of the book, as well as some background about the state of literary work in France at that point in history, which helps provide context. There's a good selection of well-known and more obscure works from each writer, and its very handy having the English translations on the facing page, so you can simply glance across for aid in understanding the... more info
Six Nineteenth Century French Poets:
I liked the book, especially that it was in both French and English
translation.
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