The Anchor anthology of French poetry
Subtitle: from Nerval to Valéry, in English translation
By: edited by Angel Flores ; introduction by Patti Smith.
Contributors: Flores, Angel, 1900-
Edition: Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
Subjects: French poetry -- Translations into English.; French poetry -- 19th century.; French poetry -- 20th century.
Other titles: Anthology of French poetry from Nerval to Valéry in English translation.
Description: "First published in 1958, this collection introduced a corpus of western poetry to countless American students, Francophiles, and would-be poets, among them Patti Smith, whose Introduction to this edition testifies to its impact on her own career. The poetic and cultural tradition forged by the symbolist poets featured herein - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and others - reverberated throughout the avant garde and countercultures of the twentieth century. Surrealism, modernism, abstract impressionism, and the Beat movement all find their roots in the examples of these poets and their theories of art."--Jacket.
Notes: Poems in English together with the original French.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-453).
Rev. ed. of: Anthology of French poetry from Nerval to Valéry in English translation. 1st ed. 1958.