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An anthology of nineteenth-century women's poetry from France: in English translation, with French text
Publisher
Modern Language Association of America
Publication Date
2008
Language
English
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Table of Contents
From the Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Primary texts
Note on the translations
[pt. 1]. Romanticism : revolutions and interiority
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Son image = The image
Á Délia = To Delia
L'étrangère = The stranger
Écrivez-moi = Write me
Une plume de femme = A woman's pen
La page blanche = The white page
Jeune homme irrité sur un banc d'école... = Angry young man, slouched at your school desk...
Jour d'orient = Eastern day
Les éclairs = Lightning
Les roses de Saadi = Saadi's roses
Le jeune fille et le ramier = The young girl and the ring dove
L'eau douce = Fresh water
L'esclave = The slave
Dans la rue par un jour funèbre de Lyon = In the street on a funeral day in Lyon
Amable Tastu
L'ange gardien = Guardian angel
Delphine Gay de Girardin
Le bonheur d'être belle = The joy of being beautiful
Ourika : Élégie = Ourika : elegy
Élisa Mercœur
Le réveil d'une vierge = A maiden awakes
Le Jeune mendiant = The young beggar
Louise Colet
Ma poésie = My poetry
Sonnet = Sonnet
Mezza vita = Mezza vita
Folles et saintes = Madwomen and saints
À Monsieur Préault, statuarie = To Monsieur Préault, sculptor
Pæstum = Paestum
Absorption dans l'amour = Absorption in love
[pt. 2]. Reaction and rebellion : Parnassianism, war, and the fall of Empire
Louise Ackermann
Mon livre = My book
L'amour et la mort = Love and death
Le positivisme = Positivism
J'ignore! = I do not know!
Malvina Blanchecotte
À ma mère : Sonnet = To my mother : Sonnet
Déshéritée = The outcast girl
Combats (XIII, LXX, LXXIV) = Battles (XII, LXX, LXXIV)
Trèves (I et XIII) = Truces (I and XIII)
Paix (VII et XIV) = Peace (VII and XIV)
Louise Michel
Paris = Paris
La danse des bombes = The bomb dance
Les œillets rouges = The red carnations
Chanson de cirque = Circus song
V'là le choléra = Cholera's upon us
Louisa Siefert
Préface = Preface
Orgueil! = Pride!
Tristesse = Sadness
Soupir = Sighing
Les saintes colères (II et III) = Holy wrath (II and III)
Nina de Villard
Jalousie du jeune dieu = Jealousy of a young god
L'enterrement d'un abre = The burial of a tree
Impromptu = Impromptu
Vers à peindre = Lines to paint
À Maman = To Mother
L'employé = The clerk
[pt. 3]. The promises of symbolism
Judith Gautier
Tigre et gazelle = Tiger and gazelle
La vestale = The vestal virgin
D'après Saadi = Inspired by Saadi
Vénus chez Diane = Venus visits Diana
Sonnet décadent = Decadent sonnet
Bulle de savon = Soap bubble
Légende arabe = Arabic legend
Marie Krysinska
Symphonie en gris = Symphony in gray
Berceuse macabre = Macabre lullaby
Nature morte = Still life
L'ange gardien = Guardian angel
La parure = Dressing up
Devant le miroir = In front of the mirror
Idylle = Idyll
Le poème des caresses = The poem of caresses
Marines = Seascapes
Gérard D'Houville
Ciel nocturne = Nighttime sky
L'ombre = The shadow
La robe bleue = The blue dress
Celle qui passe = She who passes
Vœu = Wish
Le potier = The potter
Avril = April
Apparition = Apparition
Salomé = Salomé
Stances = Stanzas
Épitaphe = Epitaph
Renée Vivien
Sonnets (II) = Sonnets (II)
Amazone = Amazon
Violettes d'automne = Autumn violets
Aigues-Marines = Aquamarines
Roses du soir = Evening Roses
Le bloc de marbre = The block of marble
La fourrure = Fur
Á la perverse Ophélie = To the perverse Ophelia
Les succubes disent... = The Succabae say...
Faste des tissus = Feast of fabrics
Attente = Expectation
Vous pour qui j'écrivis = It was for you I wrote
Le pilori = The pillory
Sur le rythme saphique = In the sapphic rhythm
Pèlerinage = Pilgrimage
Works cited in the headnotes and footnotes
Notes on the translators.
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9781603290296
160329029
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