French Poetry: From Medieval to Modern Times [Hardcover]

A beautifully jacketed hardcover collection of verse by French-speaking poets from cultures across the globe, spanning the ages from medieval to modern. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POETS. 

From the troubadours of the Middle Ages to the titans of modern poetry, from Rabelais and Ronsard to Aimé Césaire and Yves Bonnefoy,French Poetryoffers English-speaking readers a one-volume introduction to a rich and varied tradition. Here are today’s rising stars mingling with the great writers of past centuries: La Fontaine, François Villon, Christine de Pizan, Marguerite de Navarre, Louise Labé, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and many more. Here, too, are representatives of the modern francophone world, encompassing Lebanese, Tunisian, Senegalese, and Belgian poets, including such notable writers as Léopold Senghor, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, and Hédi Kaddour. Finally, this anthology showcases a wide range of the English language’s finest translators—including such renowned poet-translators as Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, John Ashbery, and Derek Mahon—in a dazzling tribute to the splendors of French poetry.CONTENTS
 
Preface
 
Marie de France(fl. 1160–1215)
The Man and the Measuring Rod
Christine de Pisan(c. 1364–c. 1431)
Rondeau
Louise Labe(1420/22–66)
‘What good is it now, that you so perfectly’
‘As long as my eyes still have tears to cry’
‘I live, I die: I flare up & I drown’
Francois Villon(c. 1431–after 1463)
Ballad for the Dead Ladies
Marguerite de Navarre(1492–1549)
‘My time grows short’
Francois Rabelais(c. 1494–1553)
To the Reader
Clement Marot(1496–1544)
Rondeau of Antique Love
Song
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