Authors: Staff of Dover Publications
ISBN-13: 9780486996189, ISBN-10: 0486996182
Format: Compact Disc
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: Book with CD, French-english language
This convenient CD and book set enables readers and listeners to discover the beauty and vitality of one of the great European poetic traditions. One 50-minute CD features 39 poems (each on a separate track) read by native-speaking Frenchman Michael Moinot. In addition, a 192-page dual-language book, containing full texts in French and English translation on facing pages, includes works by 30 major French Poets - from Charles d'Orleans, Francios Villion, and Voltaire, to Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire, and Arthur Rimbaud. The book also provides critical and biographical information on each poet and, when available, a portrait of each.