Twentieth-Century French Poems - Couverture souple

 
9780571196838: Twentieth-Century French Poems

Synopsis

Stephen Romer's anthology is a wonderful introduction to the extraordinary diversity of French poetry in the last century. These hundred and fifty or so poems spanning the whole of the 20th century have been chosen with two distinct qualities in mind: firstly the poetic quality of the translation, secondly faithfulness to the original. In most cases, the versions have been made by practising poets and many have been newly commissioned. The emphasis is on poems rather than poets and the colection has an introduction which signals and describes the movements and contours of the literary map. Contributors include: Mark Ford/Raymond Roussel, Max Jacob/John Ashbery, St John Perse/T.S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud/Alan Jenkins, Samuel Beckett, Philippe Jaccottet/Derek Mahon, Paul Valéry/Paul Muldoon and Andre Velter/Marilyn Hacker.

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À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Romer was born in 1957 and educated at Cambridge. Since 1981 he has lived in France, now in the Loire Valley, where he teaches English literature at Tours University. He has been three times Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University (NY). The author of four collections of poetry, the latest being Yellow Studio (2008), he also edited Twentieth-Century French Poems for Faber (2002). More recently he has co-edited Into the Deep Street: Seven Modern French Poets (Anvil 2009).

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