Mid-century French poets1955

A selection of outstanding contemporary French verse in bilingual edition, a volume designed to put the American reader in touch with the most vital currents in the French poetry of our own day. The editor contributes a stimulating introduction, tracing the development of the spirit and manner of French verse through the royal line of Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Verlaine and Rimbaud, to their worthy successors in the twentieth century.