The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950; With Prose Translations (Penguin Classics)
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Book Review: Poetry 101
Summary: 5 Stars

I've found the anthology to be quite useful when read from beginning to end without dwelling on each poem or poet. In this manner, a reader will gain a general sense of poetry's parallel development with each passing decade or era. Another reason I like this anthology is that it allows one a taste of the bountiful personalities and styles of poetry being read and re-read all the time, and thus, integrated into contemporary poetry whether it be English, American, or African - wherever there are good students. On the whole, and intended or not, it is an instructive and insightful compendium displaying the purpose and essentiality of poetry to civilization. Despite the inherent problems with translating foreign poetry into another language, the content of the poems shine through in their English prose translations; and anyone with a smidgen of French can compare the author's originals to their translations. An exciting time-period in which one writer after another affects the next, and in many places, influence one another side-by-side. Read it straight through, or thumb through it like a phone-book to dial into a brand new personality and take on life. Any which way you decide, there are broadly influential contacts here anxiously awaiting fresh readers with whom to converse, debate, or share timeless thoughts and ideas with.

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