Best French Poetry Books
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1. To the man I loved too much: And the ones who never loved me enough
Author: by Gabrielle G.
Published at: Library and Archives Canada (February 9, 2021)
ISBN: 978-1777488208
“Every night I meet you in my dreams, Sinfully in love and surreally yours.”Impossible by Gabrielle G. In this collection of poems, Gabrielle G. Depicts different love stories from the initial spark to the last heartbreak and writes in verses the heartache we’ve all been through.
Divided into fourteen short love stories, each describing different journeys of love, this poetry book will make your heart smile and weep at the same time and will hopefully mend the remaining scars of any current or past heartbreak. A must-read for all poetry lovers.
2. The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) (English and French Edition)
Author: by Charles Baudelaire
Published at: Oxford University Press (May 15, 2008)
ISBN: 978-0199535583
The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life.
Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
3. The Idea of Perfection: The Poetry and Prose of Paul Valéry; A Bilingual Edition
Author: by Paul Valéry
Published at: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition (April 14, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0374298487
A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to Mallarm and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo.
Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years.
Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death.
Their existence had been hinted at, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet, nor his occasional sketchbook, nor excerpts from his private journal.
4. Arthurian Romances (Penguin Classics)
Author: by Chrétien de Troyes
Published at: Penguin Classics; Revised ed. edition (June 4, 2004)
ISBN: 978-0140445213
Fantastic adventures abound in these courtly romances: Erec and Enide, Cligs, The Knight of the Cart, The Knight with the Lion, and The Story of the Grail. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
5. The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal (English and French Edition)
Author: by Charles Baudelaire
Published at: Digireads.com; Translation edition (January 1, 2015)
ISBN: 978-1420950366
Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” or “The Flowers of Evil” was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book’s publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency.
Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire’s work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned from subsequent publication. The notoriety caused by this scandal would ultimately work in the author’s favor causing the initial publication to sell out, thus prompting the publication of another edition.
The second edition was published in 1861, it included an additional thirty-five poems, with the exclusion of the six poems censored by the French government. Finally in 1868 a third edition was published posthumously. This collection added an additional fourteen poems selected by two of Baudelaire’s friends yet again excluded the six censored poems.
6. Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works
Author: by Arthur Rimbaud
400 pages
9780061561771
10.7 ounces
One of the world’s most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt’s acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose, and letters, including “The Drunken Boat,” “The Orphans’ New Year,” “After the Flood,” and “A Season in Hell.” Complete Works is divided into eight “seasons”Childhood, the Open Road, War, the Tormented Heart, the Visionary, the Damned Soul, a Few Belated Cowardices, and the Man with the Wind at His Heelsthat reflect the facets of Rimbaud’s life.
Insightful commentary by Schmidt reveals the courage, vision, and imagination of Rimbaud’s poetry and sheds light on one of the most enigmatic figures in letters.
7. Ariel (Faber Poetry)
Author: by Sylvia Plath
Published at:
Faber & Faber; Revised ed. edition (May 6, 2010)
ISBN: 978-0571259311
The poems in Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, including many of her best-known such as ‘Lady Lazarus’, ‘Daddy’, ‘Edge’ and ‘Paralytic’, were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath’s first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. ‘If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hardminded …
They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity … The book is a major literary event.’ A. Alvarez in the Observer This beautifully designed edition forms part of a series with five other cherished poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald.
8. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Author: by Aime Cesaire
Published at: Wesleyan University Press; 1st edition (September 24, 2001)
ISBN: 978-0819564528
Aim Csaire’s masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. The long poem was the beginning of Csaire’s quest for ngritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world.
With its emphasis on unusual juxtapositions of object and metaphor, manipulation of language into puns and neologisms, and rhythm, Csaire considered his style a “beneficial madness” that could “break into the forbidden” and reach the powerful and overlooked aspects of black culture.
Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith achieve a laudable adaptation of Csaire’s work to English by clarifying double meanings, stretching syntax, and finding equivalent English puns, all while remaining remarkably true to the French text. Their treatment of the poetry is marked with imagination, vigor, and accuracy that will clarify difficulties for those already familiar with French, and make the work accessible to those who are not.
Andr Breton’s introduction, A Great Black Poet, situates the text and provides a moving tribute to Csaire. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is recommended for readers in comparative literature, post-colonial literature, African American studies, poetry, modernism, and French.
9. The Song of Roland
Author: by Dorothy L. Sayers
Published at: Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (December 30, 1957)
ISBN: 978-0140440751
On 15 August 778, Charlemagne’s army was returning from a successful expedition against Saracen Spain when its rearguard was ambushed in a remote Pyrenean pass. Out of this skirmish arose a stirring tale of war, which was recorded in the oldest extant epic poem in French.
The Song of Roland, written by an unknown poet, tells of Charlemagne’s warrior nephew, Lord of the Breton Marches, who valiantly leads his men into battle against the Saracens, but dies in the massacre, defiant to the end. In majestic verses, the battle becomes a symbolic struggle between Christianity and paganism, while Roland’s last stand is the ultimate expression of honour and feudal values of twelfth-century France.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
10. The Lais of Marie de France (Penguin Classics)
Author: by Marie de France
Published at: Penguin Classics; 2nd edition (June 1, 1999)
ISBN: 978-0140447590
Marie de France (fl. Late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais – stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance – are among the finest of the genre. Recounting the trials and tribulations of lovers, the lais inhabit a powerfully realized world where very real human protagonists act out their lives against fairy-tale elements of magical beings, potions and beasts.
De France takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love, whether telling the story of the knight who betrays his fairy mistress or describing the noblewoman who embroiders her sad tale on the shroud for a nightingale killed by a jealous and suspicious husband.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
11. St. Patrick's Day Large Print Word Search: 30 St. Patrick's Day Themed Word Search Puzzles – St. Patty's Day Activity Book for Kids, Adults with St. … Pages (St. Patricks Day Gifts) (Volume 1)
Author: by Lucky Little Leprechaun
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 9, 2018)
ISBN: 978-1985175198
BEST St. Patrick’s Day Gift Idea! This awesome St. Patrick’s Day Word Search is the perfect gift for kids! Puzzlers will enjoy this St. Patrick’s Day activity book that also comes with adorable illustrations to color on every page. FEATURES 30 Word searches Large print St. Patrick’s Day puzzles Cute pictures to color on every page Full answer key
12. Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
Author: by Comte de Lautréamont
Published at: Exact Change; Annotated edition (February 2, 2004)
ISBN: 978-1878972125
Equal parts dark, destructive and brilliant, Maldoror blazed the way for the 20th century’s boldest adventures in art, music and literatureAndr Breton described Maldoror as “the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.” Little is known about its pseudonymous author, aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846) and early death in Paris (1870).
Lautramont bewildered his contemporaries, but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted line, “As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella.” Maldoror ‘s shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original editionand perhaps no better invitation exists to this book, which warns the reader, “Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger.” This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautramont’s writings available in English, in Alexis Lykiard’s superior translation.
13. Les Fleurs du Mal: The Flowers of Evil: the complete dual language edition, fully revised and updated
Author: by Charles Baudelaire
Published at: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Bilingual edition (May 16, 2016)
ISBN: 978-1533212436
Since it was first published in 2016, this dual-language edition of Baudelaire’s acclaimed collection of poems has become the translation of choice for discerning readers throughout the world. A lifelong admirer of fine poetry, especially that of the great nineteenth century French poets, John E.
Tidball has rendered into rhyming and metrical English verse Charles Baudelaire’s seminal collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal’. The translations mirror the original French texts, which appear on each facing page. This book contains all the poems that were included in the complete posthumous edition of 1868, as well as the six pieces that were condemned by the court after publication of the first edition in 1857, and which were only reinstated in France in 1949.
14. Paul Verlaine: Selected Poems (Oxford World's Classics)
Author: by Paul Verlaine
Published at: Oxford University Press; Reissue edition (April 15, 2009)
ISBN: 978-0199554010
Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarm, and Rimbaud as one of the most influential poets of late nineteenth-century France. Remarkable not only for his exquisitely crafted verse, Verlaine is also the poet of strong emotions and appetites, with an unrivalled gift for the sheer music of poetry, and an inventive approach to its technique.
This bilingual edition provides the most comprehensive selection of his poetry yet, offering some 170 poems in lively and fresh translations. It also offers a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine’s poetic form within the context of French Impressionism and the poetry of sensation.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
15. A Season in Hell & The Drunken Boat (English and French Edition)
Author: by Arthur Rimbaud
Published at: New Directions; 1st edition (October 5, 2011)
ISBN: 978-0811219488
A reissue of Rimbaud’s highly influential work, with a new preface by Patti Smith and the original 1945 New Directions cover design by Alvin lustig. New Directions is pleased to announce the relaunch of the long-celebrated bilingual edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell & The Drunken Boat a personal poem of damnation as well as a plea to be released from the examination of his own depths.
Rimbaud originally distributed A Season In Hell to friends as a self-published booklet, and soon afterward, at the age of nineteen, quit poetry altogether. New Directions’s edition was among the first to be published in the U.S., and it quickly became a classic.
Rimbaud’s famous poem The Drunken Boat was subsequently added to the first paperbook printing. Allen Ginsberg proclaimed Arthur Rimbaud as the first punk a visionary mentor to the Beats for both his recklessness and his fiery poetry. This new edition proudly dons the original Alvin Lustigdesigned cover, and a introduction by another famous rebel and now National Book Awardwinner Patti Smith.
16. Dance Me to the End of Love (Art & Poetry)
Author: by Leonard Cohen
Published at: Welcome Books; New edition (August 15, 2006)
ISBN: 978-1932183931
10 years ago, Welcome Books published the star of its Art & Poetry Series, Dance Me to the End of Love, a deliriously romantic song by Leonard Cohen that was brilliantly visualized through the sensual paintings of Henri Matisse. Now for its 10-year anniversary, Welcome is thrilled to present the entirely re-imagined and redesigned Dance Me to the End of Love.
With the art of Matisse and the words of Cohen still at the heart of the book, the new look and feel of this Art & Poetry book is overwhelmingly beautiful. Cohen’s song is a lyrical tribute to the miracle of love, the grace it bestows on us and its healing, restorative power.
Originally recorded on his Various Positions album, and featured in Cohen’s anthology, Stranger Music, this poetic song is gloriously married to the art works by Henri Matisse, perhaps the greatest artist of the twentieth century. “I had this dance within me for a long time,” Matisse once said in describing one of his murals.
Dance Me to the End of Love is the perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and all other lovers as well.
