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The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime--his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works..
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Assembled from articles published in French journals, the full version of Les Poètes maudits was first published in 1888. The little book helped build the reputations of the poets, and helped to fortify Verlaine's own renown. Though Rimbaud, Mallarmé, and Verlaine himself needed little introduction, Tristan Corbière and Jules Laforgue, a major influence on T.S. Eliot, were lesser known at the time. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, is still virtually unknown outside the francophone world, and Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, is the ultimate Symbolist. .
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Here, for the first time, the work of three of Frances greatest poets has been published in a single volume: the sensual and passionate glow of Charles Baudelaire, the desperate intensity and challenge of Arthur Rimbaud, and the absinthe-tinted symbolist songs of Paul Verlaine.

To bring the essence of these three giants of modern poetry to the American public, Joseph M. Bernstein, a noted interpreter and translator of French literature, has selected the most representative of their writings and presented them along with a biographical and critical introduction.

"Not to know these three poets", he points out, "is to deprive oneself of a pleasure as rare as it is indispensable to any real understanding of the aims and direction of modern literature.

The volume includes Arthur Symons' unabridged translation of Flowers of Evil and the Prose Poems of Baudelaire; Louise Varese's translation of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell and Prose Poems from "Illuminations"; J. Norman Cameron's translation of the verse from the Illuminations; and a representative selection from Verlaine's verse translated by Gertrude Hall and Arthur Symons..
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M.J. Verlaine explores the world of the New York woman and her men in a series of interlocking stories that are by turns witty, sexy, and surprising Young women struggle to maintain their self-respect and sense of fun while caught up in the daily war for survival that could only happen in the world's capital of fame, money, and romance..
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