Baudelaire Rimbaud and Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

Baudelaire Rimbaud and Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems by Arthur Rimbaud. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780806501963.

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 Vareses translation of Rimbauds A Season in Hell and Prose Poems from "Illuminations"; J. Norman Camerons translation of the verse from the Illuminations; and a representative selection from Verlaines verse translated by Gertrude Hall and Arthur Symons.