Selected Poems, Bilingual edition
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng; fre
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780520251786
Subjects: Works by individual poets: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Poetry; Europe; Continental European; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; European - General
Description: The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime--his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.