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This category is intended for French poetry in English translation.

Subcategories

• Aragon, Louis
• Artaud, Antonin
• Baudelaire, Charles
• Breton, André
• Char, René
• Daumal, René
• Desnos, Robert
• Eluard, Paul
• Follain, Jean
• Jacob, Max
• Lautréamont, Comte de
• Mallarmé, Stéphane
• Michaux, Henri
• Ponge, Francis
• Prassinos, Gisèle
• Prévert, Jacques
• Reverdy, Pierre
• Rimbaud, Arthur
• Valéry, Paul
• Verlaine, Paul
• Villon, François

Resources in This Category

• A Sampling of French Surrealist poetry

  http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/surrealism.html
  A sampling of French surrealist poetry by Desnos, Eluard, Reverdy and Soupault in English translation.

• Arthur Graves Canfield: French Lyrics

  http://manybooks.net/titles/canfieldartetext058flyr10.html
  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

  http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Peret.htm
  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.

• Eustache d'Amiens

  http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/butcher.html
  The Butcher of Abbeville, 13th century fabliau in English translation.

• French Surrealist Poetry in English Translation by David Gascoyne

  http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/gascoyne-translations.html
  French surrealist poetry by Arp, Breton, Dalí, Péret, Picasso, Ribemont-Dessaignes and Unik in English translation by David Gascoyne.

• Guérin

  http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/berenger.html
  Bérenger of the Long Arse, 13th cent. fabliau in modern English translation.

• Life & Works of O. V. de L. Milosz

  http://milosz.planetaclix.pt/milosz.html
  Bilingual (French/English) site dedicated to the strange and mystical French poet, Oscar V. de Lubicz-Milosz.

• Louise Labé

  http://coulmont.com/labe/labe.html
  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

  http://www.consideration.org/ephemera/eluard2.html
  English translation of text by André Breton and Paul Eluard.

• Marie de France

  http://users.clas.ufl.edu/jshoaf/Marie/
  The Lais (12th century), in a verse translation by Judith P. Shoaf.

• Michel Galiana

  http://chrsouchon.free.fr/galiana/galiana.htm
  Poems by Michel Galiana (1933-1999), with translations by Christian Souchon. Aside from their refined descriptions, Galiana's texts have mainly introspective contents, discussing beauty, incommunicability, and seclusion, much in the style of the French hermetic poets.

• Poetry and Translation : The Uncreated

  http://www.rebecca-behar.com/
  A game about language paradoxes, the poetry of Rebecca Behar in five languages, and the manifesto of intermittent poetry.

• The Priest and the Lady

  http://sites.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/prandlad.html
  Anonymous French fabliau (13th century).

• The Song of Roland

  http://www.bartleby.com/49/2/
  The poem is the first of the great French heroic poems known as "chansons de geste."

• The Song of Roland

  http://omacl.org/Roland/
  Modern English translation of La Chanson de Roland (11th century).

• Three Poems from Surrealist Love Poems

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/098710.html
  Poems by Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Paul Eluard and Joyce Mansour in English translation.

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