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	Three Poems from Surrealist Love Poems - http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/098710.html Poems by Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Paul Eluard and Joyce Mansour in English translation.
	Francophone African Poets in English translation - http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/poets.htm Francophone African poetry (that is, poetry written by Africans in the French language) - a rich and varied literary expression.
	The Song of Roland - http://www.bartleby.com/49/2/ The poem is the first of the great French heroic poems known as "chansons de geste."
	Marie de France - http://web.english.ufl.edu/exemplaria/intro.html The Lais (12th century), in a verse translation by Judith P. Shoaf.
	Chimeras, by Gerard de Nerval - http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/dec00/nerval4.htm English translations of Nerval's most famous collection, with notes, by Daniel Mark Epstein. From the New Criterion Online, November 2000.

	A Sampling of French Surrealist poetry - http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/surrealism.html A sampling of French surrealist poetry by Desnos, Eluard, Reverdy and Soupault in English translation.
	Benjamin Péret: From the Hidden Storehouse - http://www.oberlin.edu/ocpress/Books/Peret.htm Translation of "Spilled Blood" and bibliographic data on the translation into English by Keith Hollaman of a selection of poems by French surrealist Benjamin Péret.
	The Song of Roland - http://omacl.org/Roland/ Modern English translation of La Chanson de Roland (11th century).
	Poetry and Translation : The Uncreated - http://www.rebecca-behar.com A game about language paradoxes, the poetry of Rebecca Behar in five languages, and the manifesto of intermittent poetry.
	Louise Labé - http://coulmont.free.fr/labe/labe.html Sonnets. In French, some of them also in English translation. Site also contains translations into Dutch, German, Italian and Spanish.

	Michel Galiana - http://chrsouchon.free.fr/galiana/galiana.htm Poems by Michel Galiana (1933-1999), with translations by Christian Souchon. Aside from their refined descriptions, Galiana's texts have mainly introspective contents, discussing beauty, incommunicability, and seclusion, much in the style of the French hermetic poets.
	GradeSaver: Song of Roland - http://www.gradesaver.com/song-of-roland/ Study guide containing literature essays, a complete e-text, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a summary and analysis.
	Tristan Tzara - http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/proclamation.html Proclamation without Pretension.
	Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes - http://www.peak.org/~dadaist/English/Graphics/manifesto.html Dada manifesto in English translation (1920).
	Poetry Magazine - http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/1000/ Contemporary French Poetry in Translation: A Special Double Issue. Table of contents and links to translations available online.

	Madness: An Attempt to Simulate General Paralysis - http://www.consideration.org/ephemera/eluard2.html English translation of text by André Breton and Paul Eluard.
	Arthur Graves Canfield: French Lyrics - http://manybooks.net/titles/canfieldartetext058flyr10.html Introduction to French lyric poetry. Includes English introduction, French texts, and biographical notes, but no translations. In many formats for computer and PDA. Text from Project Gutenberg.
	Life & Works of O. V. de L. Milosz - http://milosz.planetaclix.pt/milosz.html Bilingual (French/English) site dedicated to the strange and mystical French poet, Oscar V. de Lubicz-Milosz.
	Eustache d'Amiens - http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/butcher.html The Butcher of Abbeville, 13th century fabliau in English translation.
	http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/berenger.html - http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/berenger.html Bérenger of the Long Arse, 13th cent. fabliau in modern English translation.

	The Priest and the Lady - http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/litsubs/fabliaux/prandlad.html Anonymous French fabliau (13th century).
	Poetry Poèmes, by Jean-Philippe Guéant - http://www.poets2000.com/poems6/default.htm Poems in French and English, German, Japanese.
	French Surrealist Poetry in English Translation by David Gascoyne - http://www.alb-neckar-schwarzwald.de/surrealism/gascoyne-translations.html French surrealist poetry by Arp, Breton, Dalí, Péret, Picasso, Ribemont-Dessaignes and Unik in English translation by David Gascoyne.

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