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1	In a dark wood wandering more books like this by Hella S Haasse, Anita Miller, PH.D. (Revised by) add to wishlist An historical novel of intrigues, battles and love affairs set in 14th and 15th century France and England. First published in 1949, this novel by a Dutch author has been a bestseller throughout Europe for the last 50 years. This is its' first publication in English. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.26! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Introduction to French Poetry (Dual-Language) more books like this by Stanley Appelbaum (Editor) add to wishlist Works by Villon, Ronsard, Voltaire, Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, many more. Full French texts with literal English translations on facing pages. Biographical, critical information on each poet. Introduction. 31 black-and-white illus. see all copies from £3.28! new only from £3.28!
3	Rimbaud more books like this by Graham Robb add to wishlist It has long baffled his admirers why the legendary late 19th-century poet Rimbaud, who is something of a cult figure to the avant-garde, abandoned poetry at the age of 21. Because of the startling, passionate verse he was capable of even as a youth, this rejection is considered one of the tragedies of modern poetry. Instead of mourning the loss, ... see all copies from £6.25! new only from £6.25! \| first editions
4	Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel more books like this by Edmund White add to wishlist The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of 19th-century poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud. see all copies from £4.03! new only from £5.34! \| first editions
5	Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters more books like this by Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Fowlie (Translator), Seth Whidden (Revised by) add to wishlist The enfant terrible of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century, all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one. More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues to appeal to modern ... see all copies from £8.73! new only from £12.68! \| first editions
6	I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud more books like this by Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason (Introduction by) add to wishlist French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) gave up the craft of poetry when he was 21, and became a salesman who traveled in Africa and the Middle East. This collection of his letters dates mostly from his traveling days, chronicling his profits and losses. see all copies from £4.78! new only from £7.15! \| first editions
7	Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters more books like this by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, Wallace Fowlie (Translator) add to wishlist Wallace Fowlie's prose translations accompany the original French texts in this, the first complete bilingual edition of Rimbaud's work in prose and poetry. see all copies from £6.83! new only from £6.83!
8	Baudelaire more books like this by Claude Pichois add to wishlist In this life of Baudelaire (1821-67) Claude Pichois has drawn on a century's worth of research and scholarship. Baudelaire's short life was a frought one, plagued by disease, impecuniousness and censorship, and ending in self-imposed exile. His assault on the the extravagances of Romanticism and the shallow tastes of bourgeois readership in his ... see all copies from £2.72! new only from £66.05! \| first editions
9	A Throw of the Dice: The Life of Stephane Mallarme more books like this by Gordan Millan, Gordon Millan add to wishlist Stephane Mallarme is one of the most influential French poets of the last hundred years. Father of Symbolism, friend of Manet and defender of the Impressionists, supporter of Zola and Rodin, he was at the very center of French creative life at the high point of late-nineteenth-century culture. His emphasis on the limitations of human consciousness ... see all copies from £5.61! first editions
10	Letters to Gala more books like this by Paul Eluard, Jesse Browner (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from £7.06! new only from £66.05! \| first editions
11	Manhood: A Journey from Childhood Into the Fierce Order of Virility more books like this by Professor Michel Leiris, Richard Howard (Translator), Susan Sontag (Designer) add to wishlist "Not only one of the frankest of autobiographies, but also a brilliantly written book, Leiris' "Manhood" mingles memories, philosophic reflections, sexual revelation, meditations on bullfighting, and the life-long progress of self-discovery."--"Washington Post Book World " "Leiris writes to appall, and thereby to receive from his readers the gift ... see all copies from £7.92! new only from £12.43! \| first editions
12	Apollinaire: Poet Among the Painters more books like this by Francis Steegmuller add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! signed copies \| first editions
13	Baudelaire, Prince of Clouds: A Biography more books like this by Alex De Jonge add to wishlist see all copies from £4.02! new only from £69.64! \| first editions
14	Baudelaire more books like this by Enid Starkie add to wishlist see all copies from £2.04! first editions
15 view cover	Mallarme: The Poet and His Circle more books like this by Rosemary Lloyd add to wishlist The editor of Mallarme's letters here looks at the way Mallarme's letters served as forums for poetic experimentation as well as at how Mallarme situated himself--through letters and in person--in his Parisian milieu. see all copies from £10.21! new only from £13.06! \| first editions
16	The day on fire; a novel suggested by the life of Arthur Rimbaud. more books like this by James Ramsey Ullman add to wishlist see all copies from £13.03! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Delirium: An Interpretation of Arthur Rimbaud more books like this by Jeremy Reed add to wishlist In this book, which marks the centenary of Rimbaud's death in November 1891, Jeremy Reed presents a personal and original interpretation of the poet's life in the crucial period in 1873 when Rimbaud was living out the writing of Une saison en enfer. Delirium is a book about what it means to go to the edge and risk everything. see all copies from £2.00! new only from £2.00! \| first editions
18	Looking for Laforgue: An Informal Biography more books like this by David Arkell add to wishlist see all copies from £1.91! new only from £13.66! \| first editions
19 view cover	Laure: The Collected Writings more books like this by Laure Colette Laporte, E Laure, Laure Peignot (Colette) add to wishlist Laure, the pseudonym of Colettle Laure Lucienne Peignot, was a journalist and poet who wrote for "La Critique sociale." At 31, she began an intense affair with Georges Bataille and was dedicated to many of the same rebellious aesthetic, political, and philosophical causes. Four years later she died of tuberculosis. These essays, letters, poems, ... see all copies from £47.89! new only from £66.05!
20	Baudelaire: The Life of Charles Baudelaire more books like this by Joanna Richardson add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
21 view cover	Selected Letters of Stephane Mallarme more books like this by Rosemary Lloyd (Editor), Stephane Mallarme add to wishlist It is the reading world's good fortune that Stephane Mallarme's letters survived, allowing later generations an intimate look at the inner life of one of Europe's most important poets. The first volume of Mallarme's letters to appear in English, this selection follows the poet from childhood to his premature death. The letters from this period ... see all copies from £12.61! new only from £36.14! \| first editions
22	Charles of Orleans more books like this by Enid McLeod add to wishlist see all copies from £5.58! new only from £8.10! \| first editions
23	An Introduction to the French Poets: Villon to the Present Day more books like this by Geoffrey Brereton add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! signed copies \| first editions
24	Confessions of a poet more books like this by Paul Verlaine add to wishlist see all copies from £4.92! first editions
25	Selected letters of Charles Baudelaire : the conquest of solitude more books like this by Charles Baudelaire, Rosemary Lloyd add to wishlist see all copies from £8.10! new only from £15.39! \| first editions

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