Selected Poems
Paul Verlaine
Translated and edited by Martin Sorrell
26 February 2009
ISBN: 9780199554010
368 pages
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196x129mm
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Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarmé, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his delicacy and exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry, and an inventive approach to its technique. This parallel-text bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his poetry yet, offering some 170 poems in lively and fresh translations and providing a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine's poetic form within the context of French Impressionism and the poetry of sensation.
- The only edition available
- A bilingual parallel text edition
- Superb translations of an important nineteenth-century French poet
- The recent film of Rimbaud's life may have sparked interest in Verlaine too!
About the Author(s)
Paul Verlaine
Translated and edited by Martin Sorrell, Reader in French and Translation Studies, University of ExeterTable of Contents
- Premiers vers
Poemes saturniens
Fetes galantes
La Bonne Chanson
Romances sans paroles
Sagesse
Jadis et Naguere
Amour
Parallelement
Dedicaces
Bonheur
Chansons pour Elle
Liturgies intimes
Odes en son honneur
Le Livre posthume
Dan les limbres
Epigrammes
Chair
Invectives
Biblio-Sonnets
Poemes divers
Reviews
In his sensitive and discerning introduction, Sorrell finds much of what ws to beomce the quintessentially Verlainaian hallmarks in the book: 'sensuality, a disposition to melancholy and to daydreaming, misty half-tones, and patterns of versification straining to break th stricter rules of French prosody. - Stephen Romer, Times Literary Supplement, Friday 19th May 00.
there has been no really substantial selection of Verlaine's work in English ... One of the pleasures this volume affords ia s prolonged chance to examin yet again, through the prism of translation, the different geniuses of the two langauges. Another is to rediscover, thanks to Sorrell's selection, a swath of Verlaine's later poetry, so often occluded in the classic anthologies. - Stephen Romer, Times Literary Supplement, Friday 19th May 00.
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