Here, for the first time, the work of three of Frances greatest poets has been published in a single volume: the sensual and passionate glow of Charles Baudelaire, the desperate intensity and challenge of Arthur Rimbaud, and the absinthe-tinted symbolist
French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to tra
Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of The Cursed Poets (Les Poètes maudits) was first published in 1888.. Rimbaud, the boy with whom Verlaine had had his infamous affair, Mallarmé, and Verlaine himself need little int
This anthology is the largest ever selection from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French fin-de-siècle — a period whose social and spiritual ills had so much in common with those of today.The selection is based on a series of essays on contem
Les Fêtes galantes furent publiées en 1869 ; elles évoquent les fantaisies de Watteau au XVIIIe siècle. Romances sans paroles sera écrit peu après que Verlaine a quitté son épouse, et a quitté la France pour l’Angleterre et la Belgique, en comp
Des Poèmes saturniens, entendons qu’ils sont placés sous le signe de Saturne. Ils seront donc inspirés : il n’était pas inutile de l’affirmer alors que régnaient encore des versificateurs parnassiens. Ils seront aussi baignés d’une rêverie
