
The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation
Author(s): Angel Flores (Author)
- Publisher: Anchor
- Publication Date: April 18, 2000
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 480 pages
- ISBN-10: 0385498888
- ISBN-13: 9780385498883
Book Description
Including translations by Richmond Lattimore, W. S. Merwin, Dudley Fitts, and Richard Wilbur, this anthology has stood the test of time in terms of its selection and scholarly apparatus. Now back in print after twenty years in a fresh new edition, the book features an introduction by Patti Smith that testifies to its epochal impact on her own career, as well as those of other influential latter-day poets, including Lou Reed and Jim Carroll. This rediscovered gem is sure to inspire a new generation.
Editorial Reviews
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Annie by Guillaume Apollinaire
Autumn by Guillaume Apollinaire
Company Commander by Guillaume Apollinaire
Dusk; To Mademoiselle Marie Laurencin by Guillaume Apollinaire
Hills by Guillaume Apollinaire
Hunting Horns by Guillaume Apollinaire
I Had The Courage To Look Backward by Guillaume Apollinaire
Marizibill by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Mirabeau Bridge by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Pretty Redhead by Guillaume Apollinaire
Rhenish Autumn; To Toussaint Luca by Guillaume Apollinaire
Salome by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Song Of The Ill-beloved; To Paul Leautard by Guillaume Apollinaire
Star by Guillaume Apollinaire
Vendemiaire by Guillaume Apollinaire
White Snow by Guillaume Apollinaire
Zone by Guillaume Apollinaire
The Albatross by Charles Baudelaire
Anywhere Out Of The World by Charles Baudelaire
At One O’clock In The Morning by Charles Baudelaire
Be Drunk by Charles Baudelaire
Beatrice by Charles Baudelaire
Beauty by Charles Baudelaire
Benediction by Charles Baudelaire
Correspondences by Charles Baudelaire
The Cracked Bell by Charles Baudelaire
The Enemy by Charles Baudelaire
Epitaph For A Condemned Book by Charles Baudelaire
The Former Life by Charles Baudelaire
The Gulf by Charles Baudelaire
Heautontimoroumenos by Charles Baudelaire
I Have Not Forgotten, Neighboring The Town by Charles Baudelaire
I Offer You This Verse So That If Once My Name by Charles Baudelaire
Invitation To The Voyage by Charles Baudelaire
Landscape by Charles Baudelaire
Lesbos by Charles Baudelaire
Lethe by Charles Baudelaire
The Little Old Women; To Victor Hugo by Charles Baudelaire
The Love Of Deceit by Charles Baudelaire
Meditation by Charles Baudelaire
Morning Twilight by Charles Baudelaire
Music by Charles Baudelaire
Posthumous Remorse by Charles Baudelaire
The Seven Old Men; To Victor Hugo by Charles Baudelaire
Spleen by Charles Baudelaire
The Swan; To Victor Hugo by Charles Baudelaire
To The Reader by Charles Baudelaire
The Vial by Charles Baudelaire
A Voyage To Cythera by Charles Baudelaire
The Voyage; To Maxime Du Camp by Charles Baudelaire
After The Rain by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Blind Man’s Cries by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Cabin-kid by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
The End by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Evil Landscape by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Hours by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Insomnia by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Kazoo by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Letter From Mexico by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Paris At Night by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Rhapsody Of The Deaf Man by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Rondel by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Small Death To Laugh by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
To Mount Aetna by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
To My Mouse-colored Mare by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
The Toad by Edouard Joachim Corbiere
Oceano Nox by Victor Marie Hugo
Anteros by Gerard Labrunie
Artemis by Gerard Labrunie
The Bewitched Hand, Sels by Gerard Labrunie
The Cydalises by Gerard Labrunie
The Dark Blot by Gerard Labrunie
Delphica by Gerard Labrunie
El Desdichado by Gerard Labrunie
Fantasy by Gerard Labrunie
Golden Verses by Gerard Labrunie
Horus by Gerard Labrunie
Myrtho by Gerard Labrunie
Another Lament Of Lord Pierrot by Jules Laforgue
Apotheosis by Jules Laforgue
The Approach Of Winter by Jules Laforgue
Complaint Of The King Of Thule by Jules Laforgue
Complaint On The Oblivion Of The World by Jules Laforgue
The End Of A Day In The Provinces by Jules Laforgue
The First Night by Jules Laforgue
For The Book Of Love by Jules Laforgue
A Hot Stagnant Evening by Jules Laforgue
I Hear My Sacred Heart Beat by Jules Laforgue
The Impossible by Jules Laforgue
Lament Of The Organist Of Notre-dame De Nice by Jules Laforgue
Lament Of The Pianos … Overheard In Well-to-do Quarters by Jules Laforgue
Lament Of This Good Moon by Jules Laforgue
Lightning Of The Abyss by Jules Laforgue
Mid-july Twilight, Eight O’clock by Jules Laforgue
Moon Solo by Jules Laforgue
Pierrots (one Has Principles) by Jules Laforgue
Romance by Jules Laforgue
Skeptic Christmas by Jules Laforgue
Song Of The Little Hypertrophic Child by Jules Laforgue
Spring Evening On The Boulevards by Jules Laforgue
Summer Landscape by Jules Laforgue
Thunderbolt by Jules Laforgue
Twilight by Jules Laforgue
Winter Sunset by Jules Laforgue
The Afternoon Of A Faun by Stephane Mallarme
Anguish by Stephane Mallarme
Another Fan (of Mademoiselle Mallarme) by Stephane Mallarme
Apparition by Stephane Mallarme
The Azure by Stephane Mallarme
Bestowal Of The Poem by Stephane Mallarme
The Chastened Clown by Stephane Mallarme
Herodiade by Stephane Mallarme
Insert Myself Into Your Story by Stephane Mallarme
Little Air: 1 by Stephane Mallarme
Little Air: 2 by Stephane Mallarme
My Old Books Closed Once More On Paphos’ Name by Stephane Mallarme
O So Dear From Far Away, So Near And White by Stephane Mallarme
Old-clothes Woman by Stephane Mallarme
Saint by Stephane Mallarme
Sea Breeze by Stephane Mallarme
Sigh by Stephane Mallarme
Sigh by Stephane Mallarme
Sonnet by Stephane Mallarme
Still By The Cloud Stricken / Low With Lava And Ash’ by Stephane Mallarme
This Day, This Pure, Enduring, Beautiful Today by Stephane Mallarme
A Throw Of The Dice Never Will Abolish Chance by Stephane Mallarme
Toast by Stephane Mallarme
Tomb (of Paul Verlaine) by Stephane Mallarme
The Tomb Of Charles Baudelaire by Stephane Mallarme
The Tomb Of Edgar Poe by Stephane Mallarme
The Tomb Of Edgar Poe (version B) by Stephane Mallarme
The White Water Lily by Stephane Mallarme
Windows (version A) by Stephane Mallarme
The Alchemy Of Words by Arthur Rimbaud
Antique by Arthur Rimbaud
Bally by Arthur Rimbaud
Being Beauteous by Arthur Rimbaud
Brussels by Arthur Rimbaud
Cities by Arthur Rimbaud
Departure by Arthur Rimbaud
The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
Eternity by Arthur Rimbaud
Evenings by Arthur Rimbaud
Ill Will by Arthur Rimbaud
The Lice Seekers by Arthur Rimbaud
Lives by Arthur Rimbaud
Marine by Arthur Rimbaud
Memory by Arthur Rimbaud
Michael And Christine by Arthur Rimbaud
Morning by Arthur Rimbaud
My Bohemia by Arthur Rimbaud
Ophelia by Arthur Rimbaud
Poets Seven Years Old by Arthur Rimbaud
Royalty by Arthur Rimbaud
A Season In Hell, Sels. by Arthur Rimbaud
Shame by Arthur Rimbaud
Song Of The Highest Tower by Arthur Rimbaud
Tear by Arthur Rimbaud
Vowels by Arthur Rimbaud
What To Us, My Heart, Are The Pools Of Blood by Arthur Rimbaud
Workers by Arthur Rimbaud
Young Couple by Arthur Rimbaud
Asides by Paul Valery
The Buried Lady by Paul Valery
The Cemetery By The Sea by Paul Valery
The Friendly Wood by Paul Valery
Helen by Paul Valery
Insinuation by Paul Valery
Interior by Paul Valery
The Lost Wine by Paul Valery
Palm by Paul Valery
Pomegranates by Paul Valery
Song Of The Columns by Paul Valery
Anguish by Paul Verlaine
Apathy by Paul Verlaine
The Art Of Poetry; To Charles Morice by Paul Verlaine
Give Ear To The Very Faint Song by Paul Verlaine
God Said: ‘my Son You Must Love Me. You See’ by Paul Verlaine
A Great Dark Sleep by Paul Verlaine
I Know Not Why by Paul Verlaine
In The Undending / Tedium Of The Plain by Paul Verlaine
In The Woods by Paul Verlaine
Moonlight by Paul Verlaine
My Recurring Dream by Paul Verlaine
The Nightingale by Paul Verlaine
The Noise Of The Cabarets, The Muck Of The Sidewalks by Paul Verlaine
Oh Sad, Sad Was My Soul by Paul Verlaine
Sentimental Dialogue by Paul Verlaine
The Shpeherd’s Hour by Paul Verlaine
The Sky Above The Roof by Paul Verlaine
Sonnet by Paul Verlaine
Tears Flow In My Heart by Paul Verlaine
The White Moon by Paul Verlaine
— Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
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“The Albatross”
translated by Kate Flores
Ofttimes, for diversion, the men of the crew
Capture albatross, vast birds of the seas
That accompany, at languid, leisurely pace,
Boats on their way through bitter straits.
Having scarce been taken aboard
These kings of the blue, awkward and shy,
Piteously their great white wings
Let droop like oars at their sides.
This winged voyager, how clumsy he is and weak!
He just now so lovely, how comic and ugly!
One with a stubby pipe teases his beak,
Another mimics, limping, the cripple who could fly!
The Poet resembles this prince of the clouds,
Who laughs at hunters and haunts the storms;
Exiled to the ground amid the jeering pack,
His giant wings will not let him walk.
“L’Albatros”
by Charles Baudelaire
Souvent, pour l’amuser, les hommes d’équipage
Prennant des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers,
Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage,
Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.
A peine les ont-ils déposés sur les planches,
Que ces rois de l’azur, maladroits et honteux,
Laissent piteusement leurs grandes ailes blanches
Comme des avirons traîner à côté d’eux.
Ce voyageur ailé, comme il est gauche et veule!
Lui, naguère si beau, qu’il est comique et laid!
L’un agrace son bec avec un brûle-gueule,
L’autre mime, en boitant, l’infirme qui volait!
Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées
Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer;
Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées,
Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher.
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