Poems under Saturn: Poèmes saturniens
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Main Author: Verlaine, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press 2011
Series:Lockert library of poetry in translation
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references
Poems Under Saturn is the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, faithfully renders the collection's heady mix of classical learning and earthy sensuality in poems whose rhythm and rhyme represent one of the supreme accomplishments of French verse. Restoring frequently anthologized poems to the context in which they originally appeared, Poems Under
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Les Sages d'autrefois; The ancient Sages; Prologue; Melancholia / Melancholia; Eaux-fortes / Etchings; Paysages tristes / Sad Landscapes; Caprices / Caprices; Autres poèmes / Other Poems; Épilogue / Epilogue; Notes
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 154 pages)
ISBN:0691144850
0691144869
1400838207
9780691144856
9780691144863
9781400838202

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