Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the French by Donald Revell. The LAST VERSES of Jules Laforgue is the first full-length collection of free verse published in the French language and, in man
Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. Although he lived only 27 years, he had a major impact on many important poets in the 20th century. He himself was
Jules Laforgue, who has been called the "French Keats" and whose work greatly influenced T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and James Joyce, went to Berlin in 1881 as French reader to the Empress Augusta, a des
