The poems
The poets
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
- Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1854)
- Jacques Prévert (1900-1977)
- Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Mélanie Waldor (1796-1871)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)
- Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
- Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924-1942)
- William Henry Davies (1871-1940)
- Hélène Vacaresco (1866-1931)
- Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863)
- Ernest de Ganay (1880-1963)
- Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)
Born in 1866 in Bucharest in a family linked to the illustrious royal family of her country, she studied languages and travelled to England and France where she met among others Victor Hugo, whom she befriended. Known for having published a volume of French Romanian Ballads, later translated into several languages, she is the author of numerous poetry collections. These fruits of a life sometimes painful ending in 1931, have a melancholic and tender grace.
In 1925 Helen Vacaresco is twice winner of the French Academy for her volumes of poems Songs of Dawn and The Songstress of Dâmbovitza. In 1927, Aristide Briand, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave her the Legion of Honor. She created the Prix Femina Vacaresco.
