Introduction to French Poetry: A Dual-Language Book Book

Four stars for the work that went into compiling the short histories of every poet, and giving us interesting details to contextualize poems beforehand. Sometimes these were better, and sometimes it was more like a publication list. I also found that having only one poem per poet sometimes felt like not enough, and I wonder if there could have been a little less focus on the earlier poets for a few more selections from the modern ones, but this might be my preference. I didn't start really caring much for any of the poems until midway through (about the time it transferred to Modern French). Translations seemed well done enough, with a few moments where the word choice in English felt a little antiquated (even with the modern poets) or a bit odd. Overall though, I read a couple poets a day and found it a nice way to get an overview of French poetry.