Selected Lyrics (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
552
Utgivningsdatum
2012-04-24
Förlag
Yale University Press
Översättare
Norman R Shapiro
Dimensioner
197 x 128 x 31 mm
Vikt
522 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780300181555

Selected Lyrics

Theophile Gautier

av Thophile Gautier
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-04-24
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The selected poems of one of the most important nineteenth-century French writers, masterfully translated In his ABC of Reading, Ezra Pound begins his short list of nineteenth-century French poets to be studied with Thophile Gautier. Widely esteemed by figures as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, the Goncourt brothers, Gustave Flaubert, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and T. S. Eliot, Gautier was one of the nineteenth centurys most prominent French writers, famous for his virtuosity, his inventive textures, and his motto Art for arts sake. His work is often considered a crucial hinge between High Romanticismidealistic, sentimental, grandiloquentand the beginnings of Parnasse, with its emotional detachment, plasticity, and irresistible surfaces. His large body of verse, however, is little known outside France. This generous sampling, anchored by the complete maux et Cames, perhaps Gautiers supreme poetic achievement, and including poems from the vigorously exotic Espaa and several early collections, not only succeeds in bringing these poems into English but also rediscovers them, renewing them in the process of translation. Norman Shapiros translations have been widely praised for their formal integrity, sonic acuity, tonal sensitivities, and overall poetic qualities, and he employs all these gifts in this collection. Mining one of the crucial treasures of the French tradition, Shapiro makes a major contribution to world letters.
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Following Gautiers instructions in his famous poem, Art, Norman Shapiro has sculpted, chiseled, and filed these ingenious translations in the resistant stone of the English language. One of the key poets of the French nineteenth century, revered by Baudelaire and T.S. Eliot, Gautier can now initiate a new generation of readers in English into the mysteries of the poetic art.Rosanna Warren, Boston University -- Rosanna Warren Gautiers distinctively graceful and elegant poetry is overdue for discovery by English-speaking readers. This virtuosic collection does both justice to his verse and a great service to those unable to appreciate it fully in the original French.Alain Toumayan, University of Notre Dame -- Alain Toumayan "A key work in the French lyric canon. . . . We are indebted to Norman Shapiro, who is nothing less than the dean of contemporary American translators engaged with French poetry. . . . [His] scholarship is impeccable, his mastery of all facets of the original text is complete, accurate, and precise, and his application of English poetics is not only exemplary in every respect, but above all, vital and vivifying.David Lee Rubin, University of Virginia -- David Lee Rubin

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Thophile Gautier (18111872) was one of the key poets of the French nineteenth century. Norman R. Shapiro is professor of Romance languages and literatures at Wesleyan University and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

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