The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Avec les gestes piteux et les regards tristes des sémaphores s ...

PAUL CLAUDEL Holding out their arms and looking like sad lighthouses in the rain Bella, Agnès, Catherine, and the mother of my s ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Octobre C’est en vain que je vois les arbres toujours verts. Q ...

PAUL CLAUDEL French ambassador to Tokyo, Washington, and Brussels, becoming a famous target of the Surrealists because of his di ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Tristesse de l’eau Il est une conception dans la joie, je le v ...

PAUL CLAUDEL The Sadness of Water There is a source of invention in joy, I agree, of vision in laughter. But, so that you unders ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Jeune fille endormie Rendez-vous derrière l’arbre à songes; En ...

Jean Cocteau 1889–1963 maisons-lafitte (france) C octeau was an accomplished artist in many fields; his poetry, fiction, film, b ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism C’est le sommeil qui fait ta poésie Jeune fille avec un seul b ...

LÉON-PAUL FARGUE Sleep’s the sum total of your poetry, Young Ms., you with your lazy, dangling arm. Dreamland’s big set piece ha ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Le petit violon d’un moustique s’obstine. On croirait qu’un so ...

MAX JACOB The minute violin of a mosquito goes on and on. One could believe that a person was playing alone in a house at a remo ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism La Rue Ravignan «On ne se baigne pas deux fois dans le même fl ...

MAX JACOB Tartufe, 1919; Le Laboratoire central, 1921; Visions infernales, 1924; Les Penitents en maillots roses, 1925; Fond de ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism moi Tu ne sais pas le bien que tu me fais. l’ange Nous t’aimon ...

MAX JACOB me: You don’t know what a comfort it is to have you near me. the angel: We love you, man of no account. Think upon it. ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Un œuf Le hasard fit casser un œuf dans le Paradis terrestre. ...

PIERRE-JEAN JOUVE An Egg Chance had an egg break in earthly Paradise. From that day on, Adam kept trying to break apart the pebb ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Lamentations au cerf Sanglant comme la nuit, admirable en e√ro ...

PIERRE-JEAN JOUVE Parler, 1913; Vous êtes des hommes, 1915; Huit poèmes de la solitude, 1918; Heures, livre de la grâce, 1920; T ...