An extensive, bilingual edition of one of the originators of modern free verse, who was a decisive influence on Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Deeply nihilistic yet full of yearning, tender yet savagely self-mocking, Laforgue has a unique voice and vision that nonetheless mark him out as one of the founding fathers of modernism. Like Charles Baudelaire before him, he was determined to face up to the ugly and decadent as well as the conventionally poetic aspects of himself and the world about him. In a career that rivals Arthur Rimbaud's for its tragically brief, accelerated development, he pioneered the use of coarse colloquialism, startling rhymes, and astonishing invented words. His greatest achievement, the posthumous Derniers Vers (1890), was the first complete French volume of free verse. Partly influenced by his translation of Walt Whitman--the first in the French language--Derniers Vers is brilliantly effective in capturing the truth of fleeting impressions and inner sensations. It is also, writes Graham Dunstan Martin, "one of the musical masterpieces of literature." This bilingual edition features a generous selection of poems in the original French from Laforgue's Le Sanglot de la Terre, Les Complaintes, L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, Des Fleurs de Bonne Volonte, and Derniers Vers, with running prose translations at the bottom of each page.

Jules Laforgue: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) (English, French and French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Laforgue, Jules

Martin, Graham Dunstan

Poetry

Penguin Group USA

Berlin LA Cour Et LA Ville (Symbolist Movement in Literature)

Ams Pr Inc

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Berlin, la cour et la ville (French Edition)

History

Trieste Publishing

Provides humorous parodies of the stories of Hamlet, Lohengrin, Salome, Perseus, and Pan, and includes information about the author's life and times

Moral Tales (English and French Edition)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

New Directions

When Jules Laforgue’s Moralités légendaires was published in 1887 a few months after his death at the age of twenty-seven, it was hailed as a masterpiece. In the words of Remy de Gourmont, it gave “the sensation (specially rare) that we have never read anything like it: the grape with all its velvet hues in the morning light, but with curious reflections and an air as if the seeds within had become frozen by a breath of ironic wind come from some place farther than the pole.” Subsequent readers have agreed. The book, which parodies great figures of literature and legend, Hamlet, Lohengrin, and Salome, was an important influence on James Joyce and T. S. Eliot as well as on any number of French poets from Guillaume Apollinaire to Jacquest Prévert. In his introduction to this lively translation, William Jay Smith points out that Laforgue had hit upon a wholly modern approach: “The heroes of the past must be recreated by each human consciousness in its own way: they are perpetually waiting to be reborn.” Their rebirth, in the wit and elegance of these finely wrought tales that Smith has carried over into English is a joy to contemplate.

Moral Tales

Humor & Satire

Poems of Jules Laforgue (Poetica S) (English and French Edition)

Dufour Editions

Bilingual edition offering the most complete and formal translation of the important 19th century French poet.

The Poems of Jules Laforgue (English and French Edition)

Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd

He is an exquisite poet, a deliverer of nations... a father of light', said Ezra Pound in 1918 of Jules Laforgue. Among the most innovative of poets in the French language, Laforgue was an important influence on the young T S Eliot. Part-symbolist and part-impressionist, his associative method, speech-rhythms and boldly heterogenous diction make him not only one of the most individual of French poets but also among the most entertaining. Notable also for his early protests for the liberation of women, Laforgue died in Paris in 1887 aged just 27. In this revised edition of his verse translation, Peter Dale (described by Donald Davie as an exceptionally thoughtful and enterprising translator') captures the energy and panache of Laforgue's poetry in translations which are by turns as playful, wild, clear, obscure and impossible as the French poems. Peter Dale was born in Addleston, Surrey, and worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a freelance writer in 1993. He was co-editor of the poetry journal Agenda for many years. Well known for his translations of Dante's Divine Comedy and the poems of François Villon, he is also an accomplished poet in his own right. His selected poems, Edge to Edge, was published in 1997.

Poems of Jules Laforgue (English and French Edition)

Anvil Press Poetry

"Moralités légendaires" de Jules Laforgue. Poète français (1860-1887).

Moralités légendaires (French Edition)

History & Criticism

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Written before his death of TB at 27, this subtle work leaves indelible impression.

Berlin: The City and the Court

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, William Jay

Historical

Turtle Point Press

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