Berlin The City And The Court

by Jules Laforgue

Berlin The City And The Court

  • ISBN-13: 9781885983022
  • Author(s): Jules Laforgue
  • Subject: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)|19th century fiction
  • Publisher: Turtle Point Press
  • Imprint: Turtle Point Press
  • Publication Date: 22-08-1996
  • Format: p/b

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The first English translation of BERLIN by the great French poet Jules Laforgue, whose works greatly influenced T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Shortly before his death, Laforgue, who has been called the French Keats, was appointed the daily French Reader' to the Empress Augusta, a descendant of Catherine the Great and a German princess who despised most things German. This book is a precise, witty detail of everyday Berlin life in the 1880's.'
About the book

The first English translation of BERLIN by the great French poet Jules Laforgue, whose works greatly influenced T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. Shortly before his death, Laforgue, who has been called the French Keats, was appointed the daily French Reader' to the Empress Augusta, a descendant of Catherine the Great and a German princess who despised most things German. This book is a precise, witty detail of everyday Berlin life in the 1880's.'