“Music is the brute that shows. It is the avowal of materials, And stutters between its clanging of things.”How should one think this musical groove of the poem whose back and forth motion shuffles th
"When there is less to go around, people fight, grab, get tough. Lately, Greece and the Balkans have been living with more than their share of less . . . Poetry, though, is one thing there is more of.
Complex, haunting, imaginative and profoundly literary, Didactic Poetries is Beck’s response to Schiller’s statement: “We are still waiting for a didactic poem where thought itself would be and would
In The Revolting Body of Poetry, Scott Shinabargar explores both the potential and problematics of phonetic articulations in modern French poetry, focusing on the work of Baudelaire, Lautreamont, Cesa
Yves Bonnefoy is one of the greatest living voices of contemporary French poetry. In this, his sixth book published by Seagull Books, he explores in profound new ways the mysteries of human consciousn
Cecile Perin (1877-1956) was born in Reims, France. Widely respected at a time in France when women poets were often ignored, she had her first book published in 1907. She went on to have some 20 plus
Proustiennes follows Erik Satie's Gnossiennesbrief, deft explorations of a theme. Jean Frémon traces Marcel Proust's influence through hawthorns, soirées, and clairvoyance to attitudes on closure, bri
"This incandescent metonym of light is, writ small, a marriage of eastern and western wisdomsabildungsroman describing the arc of a young man's journey from innocence, through passion and despair
The author ranges through Beckett's drama to analyze his approach to place, time, soliloquy, fiction, and repetition.Originally published in 1980.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-
A major literary figure in pre-war Paris, Guillaume Apollinaire volunteered for war in 1914, trained as an artilleryman and was posted in April 1915 to the Champagne front in northern France, particip
Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in a great metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right.
"The publication of this new translation of the Jaerusalem and the Chaetifs allows readers to take a complete view of this poetic trilogy about the First Crusade as the author originally intended. It
Benjamin Fondane was that rarest of poets: an experimental formalist with a powerfully lyric poetic style; a near-surrealist who embraced and produced his own version of existential philosophy; a Roma
'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry ma
The garden is revealed as both lyrical and mathematical in this explosive work. Anne Parian takes us down paths that always curve out of sight.Knowing nothing about flora the large and small vegetatio
During his lifetime, Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898) was recognized as one of the greatest living French poets. He wrote extensively on themes of reality and his desire to turn away from it, marrying fo
