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Translated & with an introduction by Karl Kirchwey. Princeton University Press (paperback, 2011)
Publisher Marketing:Poems Under Saturnis the first complete English translation of the collection that announced Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) as a poet of promise and originality, one who would come to be regarded as one of the greatest of nineteenth-century writers. This new translation, by respected contemporary poet Karl Kirchwey, faithfully renders the collection’s heady mix of classical learning and earthy sensuality in poems whose rhythm and rhyme represent one of the supreme accomplishments of French verse. Restoring frequently anthologized poems to the context in which they originally appeared,Poems Under Saturntestifies to the blazing talents for which Verlaine is celebrated.
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