A century of French verse : brief biographical and critical notices of thirty-three French poets of the nineteenth century with experimental translations from their poems
A CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSE A CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSE: biographical and criticalBrief notices thirty-three Frenchof poets the nineteenth ceîituryof with expérimental translations from their poems. lA» »*» MJ» WILLIAM ROBERTSON.JOHN LONDON: A. D. INNES & CO. BEDFORD STREET. 1895- Her MajestyEdinburgh : T. and A. Constable, Printers lo a)MA/ T///S VOLUME IS DEDICATED VVITH AFFECTION AND GRATITUDE TO DANIEL FER USON RAMSAYG AND ARCHIBALD EDWARD BUCHANAN BROWN ^a^^ j-^f:LLMIU Contents. A CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSE JOSEPH DELORME (1804-1869) 53 To Rhyme 56 To Victor Hugo 59 To the Muse 60 Lausanne . 61 AUGUSTE BARBIER (1805-1882) 62 Popularity 65 Michael-Angelo 66 Allegri 67 Shakespeare 67 GÉRARD DE NERVAL (1808-1855) 70 April n Neither Good Morning nor Good Night 77 Lest Lovers 78 Anteros 79 Delphica . 80 Artemis 81 PETRUS BOREL (l809-1859) To Iseult ... a medallion Odelet 90 The Old Breton Minstrel 90 ALFRED DE MUSSET (181O-1857) 92 The Night in May 97 Song When Hope, capricious : Lovés wild minion 104 On One Dead 104 THÉOPHILE GAUTIER (181I-1872) 106 Unfaithfulness "3 A Verse ofWordsworth . 114 Secret Affinities 115 Ode in the manner ofAnacreon 117 Apollonia . F18 The Nereids 119 Vlll CONTENTS A CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSE CONTENTS CENTURYA OF FRENCH VERSE PAGE SongAn Autumn . . . . 286 Ballade against such as speak ill of France.
A CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSEA CENTURY OF FRENCH VERSE: biographical and criticalBrief notices thirty-three Frenchof poets the nineteenth ceîituryof with expérimental translations from their poems. lA» »*» MJ» WILLIAM ROBERTSON.JOHN LONDON: A. D. INNES & CO. BEDFORD STREET. 1895-Her MajestyEdinburgh : T. and A. Constable, Printers lo