Selected Poems Of Paul Verlaine Bilingual Edition

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191029271

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Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine Pdf

`Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth-century France whose work is associated with the early Symbolists, the Decadents, and the Parnassiens. Remarkable not only for his delicacy and exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry, and an inventive approach to its technique. This bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his poetry yet, offering some 170 poems in lively and fresh translations and providing a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine's poetic form within the context of French Impressionism and the poetry of sensation. Parallel text ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0226853462

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One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine by Paul Verlaine Pdf

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 transform into timeless verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown in France and throughout the Western world. "Shapiro's skillfully rhymed formal translations are outstanding." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch "Best Book of 1999" "Paul Verlaine's rich, stylized, widely-variable oeuvre can now be traced through his thirty years of published volumes, from 1866 to 1896, in a set of luminous new translations by Norman Shapiro. . . . [His] unique translations of this whimsical, agonized music are more than adequate to bring the multifarious Verlaine to a new generation of English speakers." —Genevieve Abravanel, Harvard Review "Shapiro demonstrates his phenomenal ability to find new rhymes and always follows Verlaine's rhyme schemes." —Carrol F. Coates, ATA Chronicle

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : French literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Selected Poems by Paul Verlaine Pdf

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400838202

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Poems Under Saturn by Paul Verlaine Pdf

The first complete English edition of Verlaine's important first book of poems Poems 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, faithfully renders the collection's heady mix of classical learning and earthy sensuality in poems whose rhythm and rhyme represent one of the supreme accomplishments of French verse. Restoring frequently anthologized poems to the context in which they originally appeared, Poems Under Saturn testifies to the blazing talents for which Verlaine is celebrated. The poems display precocious virtuosity, mingling the attractions of the flesh with the longings of the spirit. Greek and Hindu myth give way to intimate erotic meditations and wickedly satirical society portraits, mythological landscapes alternate with gritty narratives of mid-nineteenth century Paris, visions of happiness yield to nightmarish glimpses of deep alienation, and real and imaginary characters—including Achilles, Valmiki, Charlemagne, and Spain's baleful King Philip II—all figure as the subject matter of a supremely ambitious young poet. Poems Under Saturn presents the extraordinary devotion and intense musicality of an artist for whom poetry remained the one true passion.

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520251786

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Selected Poems of Paul Verlaine, Bilingual Edition by Paul Verlaine Pdf

Originally published: 1948; copyright renewed: 1976.

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271086354

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Paul Verlaine by Paul Verlaine Pdf

Crowned “Prince of Poets” in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s poetry available in English translation. Verlaine’s famous works are presented here alongside poems never previously translated into English, including neglected political works and prison pieces only recently brought to light, which reveal social, homoerotic, and even pornographic inspirations. The poems are organized not by collections and date of publication but by themes and time of composition. This innovation, along with Valazza’s extensive supporting materials, will help the curious student or scholar explore the master poet’s work in the context of his troubled life: from the beginning of his literary career among the Parnassians to his affair with Rimbaud and the end of his marriage, his time in prison, and his bohemian lifestyle up to his death in 1896. Verlaine, the poet of ambiguity, has always been a challenge to translate. Rosenberg expertly crafts language that privileges the musicality of Verlaine’s verse while respecting each poem’s meaning and pace. Featuring 192 poems in French with English translations, this collection will appeal to scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike.

Author : Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226719788

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Rimbaud by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose. The first translation of the poet's complete works when it was published in 1966, Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters introduced a new generation of Americans to the alienated genius—among them the Doors's lead singer Jim Morrison, who wrote to translator Wallace Fowlie to thank him for rendering the poems accessible to those who "don't read French that easily." Forty years later, the book remains the only side-by-side bilingual edition of Rimbaud's complete poetic works. Thoroughly revising Fowlie's edition, Seth Whidden has made changes on virtually every page, correcting errors, reordering poems, adding previously omitted versions of poems and some letters, and updating the text to reflect current scholarship; left in place are Fowlie's literal and respectful translations of Rimbaud's complex and nontraditional verse. Whidden also provides a foreword that considers the heritage of Fowlie's edition and adds a bibliography that acknowledges relevant books that have appeared since the original publication. On its fortieth anniversary, Rimbaud remains the most authoritative—and now, completely up-to-date—edition of the young master's entire poetic ouvre.

Author : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0811208230

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Selected Poetry and Prose by Stéphane Mallarmé Pdf

The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

Author : Stephane Mallarme
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520234782

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Selected Poems of Mallarme, Bilingual Edition by Stephane Mallarme Pdf

The leading poet of French symbolism, Stéphane Mallarmé has exercised an enormous influence both on French and on English and American avant-garde writers. In this volume C. F. MacIntyre has translated forty-three of his poems, including the "Ouverture" and "Scène" from Hérodiade, which was to have been a drama in verse, and the well-known L'Après-midi d'un faune, for which Debussy composed his orchestral prelude. The French text faces the English translations, which are both true to the original and poetic. Indeed, as MacIntyre suggests, Debussy is probably "one of the best guides into the mysterious realm of Mallarmé." The poet was more concerned with the music of words, their sounds and vague associations, than with their conventional meanings; one of the elements in his credo was that suggestion and evocation are of greater significance than statement. His syntax is fractious, his meaning frequently enigmatic; but the reader will find MacIntyre's notes helpful in savoring the translations and the original French verses.

Author : Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199537921

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Collected Poems and Other Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé Pdf

Stéphane Mallarmé was a radically innovative poet of the 19th century, in English as well as in French. This text contains his poetry and his Poesies in the last arrangement known to have been approved by the author and provides a wide-ranging survey of his work.

Author : C. P. Cavafy
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780191623295

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The Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy Pdf

'a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe' E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's description of C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) perfectly encapsulates the unique perspective Cavafy brought to bear on history and geography, sexuality and language in his poems. Cavafy writes about people on the periphery, whose religious, ethnic and cultural identities are blurred, and he was one of the pioneers in expressing a specifically homosexual sensibility. His poems present brief and vivid evocations of historical scenes and sensual moments, often infused with his distinctive sense of irony. They have established him as one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. This volume presents the most authentic Greek text of the 154 authorized poems ever published, together with a new English translation that conveys the accent and rhythm of Cavafy's individual tone of voice. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Arthur Rimbaud
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0060904909

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Arthur Rimbaud by Arthur Rimbaud Pdf

Presents a new translation and a revised chronology along with a sketch of the poet's life.

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1731187106

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Selected Poems in Translation by Paul Verlaine Pdf

This wide selection of over seventy of Verlaine's poems has been chosen from his major collections of verse. Verlaine has been considered as a member of both the Symbolist and Decadent movements, and though he exhibits elements of both, his poetry is in truth unclassifiable. His content is always suggestive and lyrical rather than rhetorical or didactic, and the form is musical and often innovative. Much of the delicate and inimitable charm of Verlaine's art depends on setting, mood, nuance and veiled allusiveness. The nature of his poetry is to create an, often wistful and nostalgic, arena of light and shade, where the dreaming mind can invoke memory, the past, illusion and delusion, beauty and muted emotion. Nevertheless Verlaine's art is anything but febrile or simplistic. A fierce intelligence is at work behind the quiet and theatrical façade, and no poet has ever come closer to achieving the tender dreamlike state he succeeds in conveying. His melodious verse has often been set to music, notably by Debussy and Fauré.

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Erotic poetry, French
ISBN : UCSC:32106001753034

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Femmes-Hombres (Women-Men) by Paul Verlaine Pdf

Author : Paul Verlaine
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780271086330

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Paul Verlaine by Paul Verlaine Pdf

Crowned “Prince of Poets” in his later years, Paul Verlaine stands out among the iconoclastic founders of French modernist verse. This diglot anthology offers the most comprehensive selection of Verlaine’s poetry available in English translation. Verlaine’s famous works are presented here alongside poems never previously translated into English, including neglected political works and prison pieces only recently brought to light, which reveal social, homoerotic, and even pornographic inspirations. The poems are organized not by collections and date of publication but by themes and time of composition. This innovation, along with Valazza’s extensive supporting materials, will help the curious student or scholar explore the master poet’s work in the context of his troubled life: from the beginning of his literary career among the Parnassians to his affair with Rimbaud and the end of his marriage, his time in prison, and his bohemian lifestyle up to his death in 1896. Verlaine, the poet of ambiguity, has always been a challenge to translate. Rosenberg expertly crafts language that privileges the musicality of Verlaine’s verse while respecting each poem’s meaning and pace. Featuring 192 poems in French with English translations, this collection will appeal to scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike.