The four poets discussed in these studies discovered England during the fifty years from 1862 up to the eve of the Great War--at a period when great changes were taking place in Anglo-French relationships and especially between the intellectuals of the two countries. Each of these men was marked indelibly in his life and work by an early contact with England. Mallarme? and Verlaine's visits to London and Oxford illustrate the immense changes that took place in English intellectual attitudes during the last quarter of the century. Valery Larbaud, who is less widely known in France than Mallarme?, Verlaine, or Paul Vale?ry and hardly known at all in England is included as novelist and poet. Larbaud is something of a writer for connoisseurs, but those place him among the greatest of his contemporaries. England, even more than Spain or Italy, formed that great Cosmopolitan and few foreign writers have observed her cities and countryside with such close and loving attention.