Product Description: This book is the most comprehensive collection of essays, criticisms, and analyses of the author C. H. Sisson, dubbed as “one of the great translators of our time” by the Times Literary Supplement. This work provides an insightful look into C...read more

Product Description: A belief in progress tells us something about the way a society views itself. Progress speaks of confidence, optimism and dynamism. It assures us of pattern and structure. In the nineteenth century, as the Christian model of development is increasingly challenged and as geological findings expand understanding of history, so progress emerges from the Enlightenment as an ever more acute subject for debate...read more

Product Description: From short lyric pieces to long poetic sequences, moving elegies to playful translations, this collection explores how a sense of place and displacement are often unexpectedly connected. The poems, written both formally and in free verse, move from old and new Europe to the open spaces of North America and the urban frenzy of its cities, traveling in dreamlike journeys and vivid treks around the world...read more

Product Description: This volume of edited essays is the first one in English to offer a critical overview of the specific features of Belgian modernity from 1880 to 1940 in a multiplicity of disciplines: literature and poetry, politics, music, photography and drama...read more

Product Description: Among the most ambitious works that Stéphane Mallarmé attempted, these poems—reflections on the death of his eight-year-old son—remain a moving reading experience and reveal a side to the poet largely unknown. This en-face translation, based on a recent text established in the Pléiade Mallarmé, is preceded by a substantial introduction...read more

Product Description: The beauty and strangeness of inner landscapes is reflected in these powerful poems. As each poem tends to the intricacies of human experience, their focus on the fractal patterns within familiar structures—the tree within the leaf, the series of recurrences that unfold to create a fugue—add an element of discovery and revelation to the poems, modulating and rendering strange these musings on what is ostensibly human...read more

Product Description: First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: This is a comparative and interdisciplinary book exploring a variety of perspectives on the artistic culture of France, and its neighbours, in the period 1870-1914. Part One centres on France, and assembles essays on the prose, poetry and painting of Symbolism and Decadence, on avant-garde dance and performance, on women's writing and on early cinema...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)