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Our newly-translated selection of poems from Maxime du Camp's collection 'Les Chants Modernes', of 1855, is now available for browsing and download here.

Famous as a traveller in Palestine, Syria, Egypt, and Nubia, and, as an early photographer, the first travel-photographer of note, Maxime du Camp was an innovative poet, Baudelaire drawing on his material, as well as a historian of Paris and France in the nineteenth century, and a recorder of his literary circle and contacts, especially Flaubert, with whom he formed a close friendship, and who accompanied him on some of his travels.

His multifariousness, as well as his independent views, may have led to his comparative neglect as a writer in the twentieth century, but he is never less than interesting, offering a unique, strong-minded, and original view of his age.