Women/men by Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) wrote three secret collections of verse, of which "Femmes" and "Hombres" remained almost unobtainable even in France until the 1970s. These strangely unrespectable poems celebrate the pleasures of sex, with women and men respectively, in loving detail - reversing the old view of Verlaine as a limp impressionist. Alistair Elliot's metrical translations brilliantly echo the vigour, good humour and skill of the originals, which accompany them in this bilingual edition.
'..in Verlaine's clandestine collections of erotic verse, Mr Elliot succeeds marvellously. The French poet's exuberant wit, sensuality, and technical - or pyrotechnical - brilliance evoke the same virtues in the translator. The poems are obscene, blasphemous, joyful celebrations of carnal love, with man or woman; hymns to the body... These are astonishing, beautiful poems, astonishingly and beautifully rendered.'D M Thomas, Times Literary Supplement
Alistair Elliot is a freelance poet and verse translator, born in Liverpool in 1932. 'My Country', his collected poems, came out in 1989. His 'Italian Landscape Poems' and his translation of Euripides' 'Medea', made for the Almeida Theatre and Diana Rigg, appeared in 1993. He has also published as parallel texts a version of Heine's 'Lazarus Poems', a selection of 'French Love Poems', Valery's 'La Jeune Parque', and an annotated edition of Virgil's and Dryden's 'Georgics'. His selection of 'Roman Food Poems', translations from the great Roman poets about the basis of society, what we eat and how we eat it, came out in 2003. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856463686 |
| ISBN 10 | 085646368X |
| Title | Women/men |
| Author | Paul Verlaine |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2004-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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