Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Lab? and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike compositions of the Surrealists, French Love Poems is the perfect, seductive gift for anyone who makes your heart flutter.
This collection includes poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Cahun, Ren? Char, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Paul ?luard, Louise Lab?, St?phane Mallarm?, Anna de Noailles, Joyce Mansour, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and many others; as well as translations by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Frederick Seidel, Richard Sieburth, and William Carlos Williams.
Author: New Directions
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 06/28/2016
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.2lbs
Size: 5.90h x 4.20w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780811225595
Language: English
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