Selected Poems of Paul Verlaine, Bilingual Edition

Author/Contributor(s):	Verlaine, Paul
Publisher:	University of California Press
Date:	05/01/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The influential French poet, Symbolist leader, and Decadent Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was recognized as a groundbreaking writer even in his own lifetime--his stylistic innovations brought a new musicality to French poetry and paved the way for free verse and other twentieth-century techniques and experiments. This selection of poems, with the French text en face, provides a comprehensive selection of Verlaine's verse together with a lucid introduction illuminating his life and works.