The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation

First published in 1958, this collection introduced an indispensable corpus of Western poetry to countless American students, Francophiles, and would-be poets, among them Patti Smith, whose introduction to this edition testifies to its epochal impact on her own career. The poetic and cultural tradition forged by the symbolist poets featured herein—Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Verlaine, Apollinaire, and others—reverberated throughout the avant garde and countercultures of the twentieth century. Surr...