Selected Poems

'Verlaine, possessed by the madnesses of love, brimming over with desires and prayers, the rebel railing against the complacent platitudes of society, of love, of language'. Jean Rousselot Verlaine ranks alongside Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Rimbaud as one of the most outstanding poets of late nineteenth-century France whose work is associated with the early Symbolists, the Decadents, and the Parnassiens. Remarkable not only for his delicacy and 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 and providing a lucid introduction which illuminates Verlaine's poetic form within the context of French Impressionism and the poetry of sensation. Parallex text

ISBN 0192833324   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780192833327 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 294 Publisher Oxford University Press   Language English & French. Imprint Oxford Paperbacks   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Series editor Kermode, Frank Publication date 04 Nov 1999   Series title Oxford World's Classics Translator Sorrell, Martin   Height (mm) 196 Library of Congress 00702554   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 841.8   Spine width (mm) 23 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 368

		A Street in Bronzeville		3
		kitchenette building		3
		the mother		4
		southeast corner		5
		hunchback girl: she thinks of heaven		5
		a song in the front yard		6
		the ballad of chocolate Mabbie		7
		the preacher: ruminates behind the sermon		8
		Sadie and Maud		8
		the independent man		9
		of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery		10
		the vacant lot		11
		The Sundays of Satin-Legs Smith		12
		Negro Hero		19
		gay chaps at the bar		22
		still do I keep my look, my identity ...		23
		my dreams, my works, must wait till after hell		23
		looking		24
		piano after war		24
		mentors		25
		the white troops had their orders but the Negroes looked like men		25
		firstly inclined to take what it is told		26
		"God works in a mysterious way"		27
		love note I: surely		27
		love note II: flags		28
		the progress		28
		Notes from the Childhood and the Girlhood		33
		Clogged and soft and sloppy eyes		33
		Chicken, she chided early, should not wait		33
		After the baths and bowel-work, he was dead		34
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