Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889), though best known for his contes cruels and his proto science fiction novel L'?ve future, began his career with two volumes of verse, Deux essais de po?sie (1858) and Premi?res po?sies (1859), the contents of which are here presented in their entirety as Complete Early Poetry, translated for the first time into English, by Richard Robinson. Under the spell of Baudelaire and Leconte de Lisle,...