French Poetry


Les Fleurs du Mal
Alcools
Paris Spleen
Poésies / Une saison en enfer / Illuminations
Selected Poems
Complete Poems: Charles Baudelaire
Rimbaud: Poems
Illuminations
Capital of Pain
Collected Poems and Other Verse
The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950; With Prose Translations
The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry: From Nerval to Valery in English Translation
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo: A Bilingual Edition
A Season in Hell
Les Contemplations
Mallarmé in Prose by Stéphane MallarméSelected Poems by Stéphane MallarméUnlocking Mallarmé by Graham RobbMallarmé by Rosemary LloydPoésies by Stéphane Mallarmé
Mallarme
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Dariusz Radziejewski, Adieu, Rimbaud!

Guillaume Apollinaire
I have drunk you and my thirst survives But now I know the flavor of the cosmos
Guillaume Apollinaire, Alcools

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