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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: French poetry Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / American / General Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text... More

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1915 Original Publisher: The Macmillan company Subjects: French poetry Literary Criticism / European / French Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / American / General Poetry / Continental European Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: APPENDIX A Most of the following translations are in prose, for the reason that I have stated in the Preface, but the stanzas have been preserved in order to make comparison with the original easier for the reader. In a few cases the stanzas have been suppressed, but only when the transition from one to another became awkward in the prose form. The French fondness for parentheses has made it necessary to change the punctuation somewhat, but the original punctuation has been kept wherever practicable. A few of the translations are in vers libre, because the feeling of those particular poems seemed to evaporate in prose ; and three of the translations are in metre, because the originals appeared to me to require such a rendering. Opposite each translation is the number of the page in the text where the original poem may be found. EMILE VERHAEREN Page 8. A fist of terror tortures the villages ; In the distance, tall steeples Send the echo of their alarm-bells Rebounding from shore to shore. Page 8. The wind sings, the wind babbles, with chaffinch and grosbeak and sparrow, the wind whistles, shines and sparkles at the points of the tall reeds ; the wind knots itself together, and winds about itself and unwinds, and then suddenly escapes to the bright orchards beyond, where the apple-trees, like white peacocks -- mother-of-pearl and sunlight -- outspread themselves. Page c. And up above, Septe...

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