A Sampling of French Surrealist poetry
A sampling of French surrealist poetry by Desnos, Eluard, Reverdy and Soupault in English translation. |
Albert Samain's Poetry in English Translation
A site for English translations of French (neo)symbolist poet Albert Samain (1858 - 1900). |
Aloysius Bertrand: Fantasies
Selected prose poems by the first French prose poet in translation and with introductory notes by Michael Benedikt. |
Arthur Graves Canfield: French Lyrics
Introduction to French lyric poetry. Includes English introduction, French texts, and biographical notes, but no translations. In many formats for computer and PDA. Text from Project Gutenberg. |
Benjamin Péret: From the Hidden Storehouse
Translation of "Spilled Blood" and bibliographic data on the translation into English by Keith Hollaman of a selection of poems by French surrealist Benjamin Péret. |
Chimeras, by Gerard de Nerval
English translations of Nerval's most famous collection, with notes, by Daniel Mark Epstein. From the New Criterion Online, November 2000. |
ClassicNotes: Song of Roland
Summary and analysis. Includes a biography, message board, and background information. |
Eustache d'Amiens
The Butcher of Abbeville, 13th century fabliau in English translation. |
Francophone African Poets in English translation
Francophone African poetry (that is, poetry written by Africans in the French language) - a rich and varied literary expression. |
French Surrealist Poetry in English Translation by David Gascoyne
French surrealist poetry by Arp, Breton, Dalí, Péret, Picasso, Ribemont-Dessaignes and Unik in English translation by David Gascoyne. |
Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes
Dada manifesto in English translation (1920). |
Gerard de Nerval
Translations by various translators of four of Nerval's poems. |
Guérin
Bérenger of the Long Arse, 13th cent. fabliau in modern English translation. |
Life & Works of O. V. de L. Milosz
Bilingual (French/English) site dedicated to the strange and mystical French poet, Oscar V. de Lubicz-Milosz. |
Louise Labé
Sonnets. In French, some of them also in English translation. Site also contains translations into Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish. |
Madness: An Attempt to Simulate General Paralysis
English translation of text by André Breton and Paul Eluard. |
Marie de France
The Lais (12th century), in a verse translation by Judith P. Shoaf. |
O. V. de L. Milosz (1877-1939)
Short biography and small selection of poems in English translation. |
Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925)
Short biography, "At the grave of Pierre Louÿs" by Valéry (1925) and small selection of poetry in English translation. |
Poetry and Translation : The Uncreated
A game about language paradoxes, the poetry of Rebecca Behar in five languages, and the manifesto of intermittent poetry. |
Poetry Magazine
Contemporary French Poetry in Translation: A Special Double Issue. Table of contents and links to translations available online. |
Poetry of Albert Giraud
Presents the complete texts of Pierrot Lunaire and Dernieres Fetes, with English translations. |
Poetry Poèmes, by Jean-Philippe Guéant
Poems in French and English, German, Japanese. |
The Priest and the Lady
Anonymous French fabliau (13th century). |
The Song of Roland
Modern English translation of La Chanson de Roland (11th century). |
The Song of Roland
The poem is the first of the great French heroic poems known as "chansons de geste." |
Three Poems from Surrealist Love Poems
Poems by Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Paul Eluard and Joyce Mansour in English translation. |
Tristan Tzara
Proclamation without Pretension. |
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