Cover of One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition

One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition

French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown in France and throughout the Western world.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 309 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916) Shares poetry, french, french literature
  2. A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat Shares poetry, french, classics
  3. Illuminations Shares poetry, french, classics
  4. Selected Poems and Letters Shares poetry, France, classics

“People who read One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Poems, 1965-1975
  2. Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, Prose, and Letters
  3. The Portable Blake
  4. The Selected Poems

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Great Love Poems
  2. The Random House Treasury of Best-Loved Poems
  3. The Complete Poems of John Keats
  4. Cosmopolitan Greetings

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Complete Works
  2. Baudelaire: Poems
  3. Rimbaud: Poems
  4. Eliot: Poems

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Selected Poems
  2. Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
  3. Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
  4. Selected Poems