—If the best French lyric poetry of modern days has indisputably a charm of refinement and delicate beauty all its own, the best of the German has an inveterate earnestness and a depth of feeling that ...

English associate professor Brian Kim Stefans said his translations of Arthur Rimbaud will give new light to the rebel, revolutionary and intellectual. Stefans is in the process of publishing a book ...

From left: North High students Molly Racsko, Nina Phillips, Lenor Levy, Clara Sarfati and Daisy Korman competed at the annual French Poetry Competition at Hofstra University. Fifteen students from ...

On Wednesday, March 20, Elizabeth Della Zazzera, an assistant professor in residence at the University of Connecticut’s history department and the head of communications and undergraduate outreach at ...

WHO WAS THE GREATEST FRENCH POET of the nineteenth century? André Gide’s immortal comment—”Victor Hugo, alas!”—is as true today as it was when Gide wrote it in a letter to Paul Valéry almost a century ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association. Jamie ...

Twice a week, I meet with two elderly men to read poems out loud. The poems are ancient, even older than us. They’re usually love sonnets or war epics or, sometimes, the lyrics of traditional songs.

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