
Great French Poems
35 Favourites from Villon to Baudelaire in French with English Translation
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Bill Homewood
Here are 35 of the greatest poems in the French language, carefully selected and read in French by Bill Homewood, the bilingual English classical actor who has spent half his life in France. To help those English speakers with just a little French to appreciate the glories of these poems, he provides his own clear English translations.
The poems range from the earliest medieval and renaissance masterpieces - François Villon, Joachim de Bellay, Pierre de Ronsard and others - to the high romance of the 19th century, with Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine and Charles Baudelaire, then on to the poets who revolutionised style and led us into the 20th century: Stéphane Mallarmé, Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire and Paul Eluard.
Recorded in France, this collection has already attracted praise from leading figures in French culture and critics alike.
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Critic reviews
Romantic, extraordinaire
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Adequately Chosen, Well Read - Includes PDF
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Truly great
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT
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Ukemi has produced an ingenius way of appreciating these poems by hearing the beautiful lyricisim of the orginal with a proceeding english translation that puts into context what is lost in the voyage from meaning to understanding while still providing a complimentary presentation of the orginal work.
The only other audiobook on Audiobook quite like this isn't specifically a language learning program is the Naxos edition of "The General Prologue and The Physician's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer"which consists of the orginal Middle English text along with a modern "translation" following it.
But imagine if there was audiobook of The Bible with every verse in it's orginal Hebrew and Greek followed by an English translation? I mean, I know the Qur'an is much shorter, but why isn't there more demand?
Anyway, you won't regret purchasing this book. Like every Ukemi title it is engaging and endlessly relistenable.
Please make more bilangual audiobooks like this!!!
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