Understanding French Poetry
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| Author | : David Hunter |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 133 |
| Release | : 2005-03-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0198039360 |
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings. In clear and concise style, it explains the Alexandrine meter typically used in French-language poetry, how to distinguish different meters by counting syllables, how to identify stresses and rhyme in French verse, and ultimately, how to enhance the interpretation and enjoyment of the melodie . The book also offers valuable resources, including a brief history of French versification, detailed analysis of several poems, a glossary of technical terms, and suggestions for further reading. While other books help singers with French diction, or offer translations of French texts, no other book helps a singer understand the meaning behind what they are singing. Understanding French Verse is an essential tool for singers, accompanists, and other musicians who want to understand more about the French texts with which they are working.
| Author | : Stamos Metzidakis |
| Publisher | : Summa Publications, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781883479343 |
| Author | : Charles Baudelaire |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780140446449 |
Perhaps the most explosively original mind of his century, Charles Baudelaire has proved profoundly influential well beyond the borders of nineteenth-century France. Writers from Lord Alfred Douglas to Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Aldous Huxley to Seamus Heaney, from Arthur Symons to John Ashbery, from Basil Bunting to Robert Lowell, have all attempted to transmit in English his psychological and sexual complexity, his images of urban alienation. This superb addition to the Poets in Translation series brings together the translations of his poetry and prose poems that best reveal the different facets of Baudelaire's personality: the haughtily defiant artist, the tormented bohemian, the savage yet tender lover, and the celebrant of strange and haunted cityscapes.
| Author | : Stanley Appelbaum |
| Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2012-04-18 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 0486119998 |
Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illustrations.
| Author | : Paul Auster |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 689 |
| Release | : 1984-01-12 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0394717481 |
During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice
| Author | : E. H. Blackmore |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 019283973X |
'Poetry will no longer keep in time with action; it will be ahead of it.' Arthur Rimbaud The active and colourful lives of the poets of nineteenth-century France are reflected in the diversity and vibrancy of their works. At once sacred and profane, passionate and satirical, these remarkable and innovative poems explore the complexities of human emotion and ponder the great questions of religion and art. They form as rich a body of work as any one age and language has ever produced. This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, and Mallarmé. Modern translations are printed opposite the original French verse, and the edition contains over a thousand lines of poetry never previously translated into English.
| Author | : Jacques Barzun |
| Publisher | : New Directions |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780811211574 |
Barzun, Essay on French Verse. From the author of From Dawn to Decadence.
| Author | : Hugues Azérad |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 357 |
| Release | : 2010-05-20 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521886422 |
A selection of modern French poems with critical commentary, glossary of literary terms, biographies and bibliography.
| Author | : Jean-Jacques Thomas |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 9780271042589 |
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| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 946 |
| Release | : 2005-02-24 |
| Genre | : Poetry |
| ISBN | : 0141937408 |
This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.
