PoetryInTranslation

Victor-Marie Hugo made three trips to the Rhineland with Juliette Drouet from 1838-1840. The recollections of these excursions formed the basis of a collection of letters, published as ‘Le Rhin’ in 1842. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/H…

Heinrich Heine, when a student in Göttingen in 1824, hiked through the Harz Mountains. ‘Die Harzreise’ his description of the journey, is a mixture of lyricism and satire. It was Heine’s first major success. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/H…

Heinrich Heine's 'Germany: A Winter's Tale' is his satirical verse ‘epic’ describing a journey from Paris to Hamburg in the winter of 1843. The title ‘A Winter’s Tale’ refers to Shakespeare’s late play. Read A. S. Kline's new English translation here: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/H…

We announce a 25th anniversary edition of A. S. Kline's prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy featuring all illustrations by Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883), digitally restored from the Cassell & Company Limited edition (London, 1902). Read here: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/…

Gautier's preface to Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal in which he refutes allegations of immorality and argues that Baudelaire employed what he terms the "decadent style" not as endorsement but as his method. In a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

Selected poems from throughout Victor Hugo’s career with a central theme of mourning - ranging from his daughter Léopoldine’s drowning to his poetic tribute offered at Théophile Gautier's Grave. Now in a new #OpenAccess translation by A. S. Kline: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/H…

Twenty-two of Alfred de Musset's poems including songs, sonnets, and longer narrative works that address love, memory, place, and the nature of the poetic arts. Now available as new #OpenAccess translations by A. S. Kline: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/D…

John Lydgate of Bury (c. 1370 – c. 1451) an English monk and poet, was born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, in the county of Suffolk. Read this #OpenAccess edition of his early works - influenced by Chaucer’s writings and modernised by A. S. Kline. poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/…

Dating from the late 13th/early 14th century, Sir Orfeo, a Breton ‘lay’ relates a tale derived from that of the Orpheus of Greek myth, here a royal hero who rescues his wife from the King of the Faeries. Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/English/…

Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Notes on the Melody of Things’ derives from his relationship with Lou Andreas-Salomé, the Russian-born psychoanalyst who was a friend of Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche. Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/German/R…

Théophile Gautier’s autobiographical note was first published by Jean Auguste Marc in Sommités Contemporaines, 1867, alongside a portrait of Gautier, after a photograph by ‘Bertall’ (Charles Albert d’Arnoux). Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

"But he was of this world, where the finest of things Meet the worst of fates." Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Gautier's Captain Fracasse With restored engravings by Gustave Doré poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

Read A. S. Kline's #OpenAccess translation of Théophile Gautier's epistolatory novel Mademoiselle de Maupin, published in 1835: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

"I imagined the world to be full of delightful young men, and that, on the road, one would meet many an Esplandián, or Amadis, or Lancelot of the Lake, in pursuit of their Dulcinea, and was astonished to find that the male sex takes very little interest in so sublime a quest."

Théophile Gautier visited Belgium in 1836, accompanied by his friend Gérard de Nerval (nicknamed Fritz). Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of his travelogue - A Tour in Belgium (Un Tour en Belgique, 1836, 1846). poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

Théophile Gautier briefly visited Greece during his return journey from Constantinople in 1852. Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of his travelogue - An Excursion in Greece (Excursion en Grèce, 1852) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

"On Sundays, every true Englishman…shuts himself away in his house to…enjoy…the happiness of being…neither French nor a Papist" Read this new #OpenAccess translation by A.S. Kline of Théophile Gautier's - A Day in London (Une Journée à Londres, 1842) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

Théophile Gautier - Egypt (1869). Free to read here: poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

In 1869, Gautier was invited to the Suez Canal inauguration but broke his arm en route. Despite this injury he reached Cairo - one of his three "dream cities" - viewed the Pyramids and attended the ceremony. Read this new #OpenAccess translation of his travels by A.S. Kline

Constantinople (1852) Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G… Egypt (1869) Gautier, Théophile (1811–1872) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

The Itinerary Chateaubriand, François-René de (1768–1848) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Chateaub… Travels in the Near East (Voyage en Orient, 1843) Nerval, Gérard de (1808-1855) poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/French/G…

During these troubled times, experience the Middle East through the eyes of France's literary giants - writers who captured the world during an epoch where French culture reigned supreme. Four #OpenAccess books to transport you across time and continents...