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An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this bookanthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets—30 inall—from the mid-15th century to our own time. Included are such luminaries asCharles d'Orléans, François Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine,Voltaire, Chénier, Hugo, Musset, Gauthier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarmé,Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valéry, Apollinaire, Perse, Èluard and Bonnefoy.In addition, the work of poets less familiar to the English-speaking world,yet instrumental in the formulation of the French tradtion—Scève, Saint-Amant,Malherbe—is here as well.The French texts come from the best critical editions, or, in the case of themoderns, those authorized by the poets themselves. Teachers of French willappreciate the clear prose translations on facing pages by Stanley Applebaum;the translator does not attempt to be a poet himself, rather to lead thereader to a full appreciation of the poem as it was written. An introuctoryessay gives as understandable a short summary of the formal aspects ofversification as can be found anywhere—the early orthodoxy of rhyme and meter,the gradual introduction of enjambement and metrical va

Author

Appelbaum, Stanley

Publisher

Dover Publications, Incorporated

Published

1969

Language

EN

ISBN

9780486119991

Subjects

Literary Collections, Language Learning, Poetry

Rating

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Updated

2026-03-24