Background
Shintaro Suzuki was born in 1895 in Tokyo, Japan.
Shintaro Suzuki was born in 1895 in Tokyo, Japan.
He graduated from Literature Department, Tokyo University in 1919. He was known as a student of French poetry of symbolism.
Shintaro Suzuki was a professor at Tokyo University since 1947. He translated works of Paul Verlaine, Stephane Mallarme and Charles Baudelaire. He also translated "Cyrano de Bergerac" (in collaboration with Yutaka Tatsuno), "A Faun's Afternoon,'' "French Prosody," etc.