(Paperback - French - 9780486267111)
An unusually useful survey of the development of French poetry, this book anthologizes works by France's finest and most influential poets -- 30 in all -- from the mid-fifteenth century to our own time. Included are such luminaries as Charles d'Orl ans, Fran ois Villon, Joachim du Bellay, Ronsard, La Fontaine, Voltaire, Ch nier, Hugo, Musset, Gautier, Vigny, Baudelaire, Mallarm , Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Val ry, Apollinaire, Perse, luard, and Bonnefoy. In addition the work of poets less familiar to the English-speaking world, yet instrumental in the formulation of the French tradition -- Sc ve, Saint-Amant, Malherbe -- is here as well. br The French texts ..