num_pages: 368
description: Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music ofpoetry, 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. It also offers a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine's poetic form within the context of FrenchImpressionism and the poetry of sensation.
language: English
title: Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
genres: Literature, Classics, Collections, Queer, 19th Century, France, European Literature, French Literature, Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 1716
publisher: Oxford University Press