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The Poem Itself: 150 European poems translated and analysed

The Poem Itself: 150 European poems translated and analysed

John Frederick Nims
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This classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages, accompanied by a literal translation into English, a word by word commentary on the text, notes on the text and aids to pronunciation.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The three revolutions of modern poetry

FRENCH
Gérard de Nerval
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine
Stéphane Mallarmé
Jules Laforgue
Paul Claudel
Paul Valéry
Guillaume Apollinaire
Saint-John Perse
Louis Aragon
Paul Éluard
René Char

GERMAN
Friedrich Hölderlin
Stefan George
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Rainer Maria Rilke
Bertolt Brecht

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
Rosalia Castro
Miguel de Unamuno
Antonio Machado
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Leon-Felipe
Manuel Bandeira
Fernando Pessoa
Pedro Salinas
Jorge Guillén
Jorge de Lima
César Vallejo
Cecilia Meireles
Federico García Lorca
Rafael Alberti
Eugenio Florit
Pablo Neruda

ITALIAN
Giacomo Leopardi
G. G. Belli
Giosué Carducci
Giovanni Pascoli
Gabriele d´Annunzio
Guido Gozzano
Dino Campana
Umberto Saba
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Eugenio Montale
Salvatore Quasimodo

APPENDIX
Poem by A. Blok
A note on the prosodies
A note on the pronunciations
Notes on contributors
Language
English
Pages
382
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1960

The Poem Itself: 150 European poems translated and analysed

John Frederick Nims
3.5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This classic work contains over 150 of the greatest modern French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian poems presented in the original languages, accompanied by a literal translation into English, a word by word commentary on the text, notes on the text and aids to pronunciation.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
The three revolutions of modern poetry

FRENCH
Gérard de Nerval
Charles Baudelaire
Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine
Stéphane Mallarmé
Jules Laforgue
Paul Claudel
Paul Valéry
Guillaume Apollinaire
Saint-John Perse
Louis Aragon
Paul Éluard
René Char

GERMAN
Friedrich Hölderlin
Stefan George
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Rainer Maria Rilke
Bertolt Brecht

SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE
Rosalia Castro
Miguel de Unamuno
Antonio Machado
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Leon-Felipe
Manuel Bandeira
Fernando Pessoa
Pedro Salinas
Jorge Guillén
Jorge de Lima
César Vallejo
Cecilia Meireles
Federico García Lorca
Rafael Alberti
Eugenio Florit
Pablo Neruda

ITALIAN
Giacomo Leopardi
G. G. Belli
Giosué Carducci
Giovanni Pascoli
Gabriele d´Annunzio
Guido Gozzano
Dino Campana
Umberto Saba
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Eugenio Montale
Salvatore Quasimodo

APPENDIX
Poem by A. Blok
A note on the prosodies
A note on the pronunciations
Notes on contributors
Language
English
Pages
382
Format
Paperback
Release
January 01, 1960

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