French Symbolist Poetry 50th Anniversary Edition, A Bilingual Edition - C. F. MacIntyre

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French Symbolist Poetry 50th Anniversary Edition, Bilingual Edition - C. F. MacIntyre (Translator)

Whether viewed as an influence or in and for themselves, the Symbolists are a tantalizing group. Paralleling similar movements in art and music, their intensely personal poetry leans more heavily on oblique suggestions and evocation than on overt statement. It sets its perceptions, intuitive and nonrational, squarely against intellectual and scientific thinking—and this with a music that is flexible, intrepid, and subtle, sometimes even dissonant and jazzy. But the poetry itself is the movement's best definition.

Here with bilingual text en face, an introduction, and illuminating notes, are some forty carefully selected poems of that movement. They range from the remote beginnings in Nerval and Baudelaire, through the humor and irony of Corbière and Laforgue, to the technical brilliance of Valéry, who died as recently as 1945. For those who wish an overall view of the movement, this is a generous sampling.

French Symbolist Poetry 50th Anniversary Edition, Bilingual Edition - About the Translator

C.F. MacIntyre (1890-1967) is well known for his translations of influential works by Baudelaire, Goethe, Rilke, Corbière, Verlaine, and Mallarmé.

  • Language

    French

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Book Binding

    Paperback

  • Book Format

    Unabridged

  • Book Genre

    Poetry

  • Book ISBN

    9780520254206

  • Book Page Count

    160

  • Book Publication Date

    December 2007

  • Book Publisher

    University of California Press

  • Product Supplier

    J Wiley

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