Mid-century French poets
Subtitle: selections, translations, and critical notices.
Publisher: Twayne
Published: 1955
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 273
Subjects: French poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English
Description: A selection of outstanding contemporary French verse in bilingual edition, a volume designed to put the American reader in touch with the most vital currents in the French poetry of our own day. The editor contributes a stimulating introduction, tracing the development of the spirit and manner of French verse through the royal line of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud, to their worthy successors in the twentieth century.