Modern French Poets

by Wallace Fowlie (Editor)

Treasury of poems and prose extracts by 10 great poets: Max Jacob, Leon-Paul Fargue, Jules Supervielle, Saint-John Perse, Jean Cocteau, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, Henri Michaux and Pierre Emmanuel. Excellent English translations on facing pages plus introduction to modern French poetry and introduction and bibliography for each poet.

Genres: Poetry, France

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1955

Reviews

[Justin]

Got this from a secondhand store with Max. Saw there was some Michaux I couldn’t find on JSTOR. He could never disappoint me. Writ a conversation between Poem and Voyage that had me clapping. Him and Desnos are THE metropolitan somnambulists.
But the real reason I’ve logged this is to let my friends know that whether Max Jacob is a surrealist or not is certainly questionable, but he’s doubtlessly a loser. Big Balls to his little Holocaust satires with toads and chickens running around.

[Angela Randall]

Want to get this dual-language: Modern French Poets (Dual-Language)