One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine
Subtitle: A Bilingual Edition
Contributors: Norman R. Shapiro (Translator)
Edition: Bilingual edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780226853451
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Works by individual poets: 19th century; Poetry; French; Continental European; Poetry / Single Author / Continental European; General
First sentence: Whether, as a youth of twenty-two, Verlaine truly felt himself to have been born under the malevolent sign of Saturn, foreboding, this early in his life, of the dual nature of his conflicted personality, or whether this was only the aesthetic, self-indulgent posturing of an adulator of Baudelaire and his "flowers of evil," the fact is, his Poemes saturniens really have very little "saturnine" about them except for the volume's title and a brief self-conscious liminary poem.