The Yale Anthology of Twentieth-Century French Poetry

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Après le déluge La lune diminue, divin septembre. Les montagne ...

VALÉRY LARBAUD After the Deluge The moon is waning, September sublime. The mountains lie stilled in their light Shadows are quic ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Ode Prête-moi ton grand bruit, ta grande allure si douce, Ton ...

VALÉRY LARBAUD Ode Lend me your great sound, your fine smooth speed, Slipping at night through all the lights of Europe, O elega ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Le Don de soi-même Je m’o√re à chacun comme sa récompense ; Je ...

VALÉRY LARBAUD The Gift of Oneself I o√er myself to everyone as a reward, Even before you’ve deserved it. There is something in ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Chanson Il naissait un poulain sous les feuilles de bronze. Un ...

Saint-John Perse (Alexis Saint-Léger Léger) 1887–1975 guadeloupe B oth a poet and a politician, Perse used the pseudonym Saint-J ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism l’Étranger à ses façons par les chemins de toute la terre!... ...

SAINT-JOHN PERSE all the earth the Stranger to his ways... ‘‘Hail, daughter! robed in the loveliest robe of the year.’’ —t. s. e ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism homme, et quelle, sa demeure? Allait-il seul au feu du jour mo ...

PABLO PICASSO that man, and which his home? Did he go alone at dawn to show the purple of his nights?... Sun of being, Prince an ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Ses mollets Ses mains Ses yeux Ses joues Ses cheveux Son nez S ...

CATHERINE POZZI Her calves Her hands Her eyes Her cheeks Her hair Her nose Her throat Her tears the planets the wide curtain dra ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Nyx À Louise aussi de Lyon et d’Italie Ô vous mes nuits, ô noi ...

CATHERINE POZZI work. Born to a wealthy Parisian family, Pozzi frequented the salons of the time. When she learned in 1910 that ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Dans les champs ou sur la colline Non Le personnage historique ...

Pierre Reverdy 1889–1960 narbonne, france R everdy, considered a Cubist poet, along with Apollinaire and Max Jacob, inspired the ...

part 1. 1897–1915: symbolism, post-symbolism, cubism, simultanism Le soir qui descendait devait venir de loin Lentement la chans ...

PIERRE REVERDY The evening was coming down and from far away Slowly the song was leaving our memories behind Were we supposed to ...