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The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950--With Prose Translations

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This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of ...

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The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950--With Prose Translations 1994, Penguin Group, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780140423853

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