- Paperback: 309 pages
- Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; 1 edition (Nov 1 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0226853454
- ISBN-13: 978-0226853451
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.7 x 1.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #54 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Poetry > French
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French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown in France and throughout the Western world.
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French poet Paul Verlaine, a major representative of the Symbolist Movement during the latter half of the nineteenth century, was one of the most gifted and prolific poets of his time. Norman Shapiro's superb translations display Verlaine's ability to transform into timeless verse the essence of everyday life and make evident the reasons for his renown in France and throughout the Western world.
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Whether, as a youth of twenty-two, Verlaine truly felt himself to have been born under the malevolent sign of Saturn, foreboding, this early in his life, of the dual nature of his conflicted personality, or whether this was only the aesthetic, self-indulgent posturing of an adulator of Baudelaire and his "flowers of evil," the fact is, his Poemes saturniens really have very little "saturnine" about them except for the volume's title and a brief self-conscious liminary poem. Read the first page
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Whether, as a youth of twenty-two, Verlaine truly felt himself to have been born under the malevolent sign of Saturn, foreboding, this early in his life, of the dual nature of his conflicted personality, or whether this was only the aesthetic, self-indulgent posturing of an adulator of Baudelaire and his "flowers of evil," the fact is, his Poemes saturniens really have very little "saturnine" about them except for the volume's title and a brief self-conscious liminary poem. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Too Much Poetic License,
By ValT26 "theartofhr" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition (Hardcover)
A literal translation of Verlaine from the French would be leaden. (But if you want one that approaches just that, see the Oxford Classics version .) All the same, Shapiro strays too far for me from what Verlaine wrote. These translations are often gorgeous, and sometimes a tad florid. I would have liked to see Shapiro translate more closely to the orginal while maintaining the grace he attempts, and even frequently reaches, here. (Is this possible in translations?) However beautiful, this is not Verlaine. The notes at book's end , expaining some of the translator's decitions and choices, are quite interesting and worth reading, even though I don't always agree with his approach. ...
5.0 out of 5 stars
Shapiro is the best!,
By sky (Cambridge MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition (Paperback)
The reader below from Puero Rico could simply not be more wrong--no less a poet than Seamus Heaney has praised quite highly the work of Norman Shapiro, who is universally recognized as one of our premiere translators of French literature, easily on a level with Richard Howard and Richard Wilbur and W.S. Merwin. Mr. Shapiro has won a National Book Award for his work, and his four volumes (thus far) of La Fontaine are superb, dazzling!So, ignore the ill-informed reviewer below and proceed with confidence! And check out "Fifty Fables," "Fifty More Fables," "Once Again, La Fontaine," and "La Fontaine's Bawdy"--all translated by Shapiro--a heroic endeavor, and as good as French literature gets in English!!!
2.0 out of 5 stars
Great Poet, Less Than Great Translator.,
By A Customer
This review is from: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition (Paperback)
The downside to translation is that we always loose, in some amount, something of what the author(poet)is expressing. The translator did not try to maintain Velaine's essence...he tried to create a whole new poem from what he understood Verlaine is expressing.
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