This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed preliminary help with the problems of

A companion volume to An anthology of modern French poetry, 1850-1950 edited by P. Broome and G. Chesters.

A selection of modern French poems with critical commentary, glossary of literary terms, biographies and bibliography.

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converg