Modern French Poets (Dual-Language)

Book Overview

Treasury of poems and prose extracts by 10 great poets: Max Jacob, Leon-Paul Fargue, Jules Supervielle, Saint-John Perse, Jean Cocteau, Andr Breton, Paul luard, Robert Desnos, Henri Michaux and Pierre... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486273237
• ISBN13: 9780486273235
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Fowlie is Fantastic

I am writing this review to counter the annoying and undeserved review it recieved by someone obviously incapable of realistically critiquing poetry. This is not only one of the few available (maybe one of the first) anthologies of modern French poetry for anglophone readers, but with Marianne Caws, the best. Wallace Fowlie's translation of the complete works of Arthur Rimbaud is unrivalled in my experience of about 5 translations of Rimbaud's work; and his expertise and artistry in adapting great visionary French poetry into English verse is appearant here too in Modern French Poets. Symbolist, Dadist, and Surrealist visions. Erotic, dreamy, electric, and a subtle nocturnal, yet luminous beauty only the French can write.