The background of modern French poetry : essays and interviews
1968, Reprinted. Cambridge : University Press. Library copy with remaining marks. Very good cloth copy, with some tape on the covers, in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss), taped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper (price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #417172
Physical description; 196 pages 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. First published 1951. Contents; Contents : Swedenborg, Baudelaire and their intermediaries ; Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarmé ; Poe and Baudelaire ; Whitman and the symbolists ; From poetic prose to the prose-poem ; The vers libéré ; The first theory of the vers libre ; Whitman and the origins of the vers libre ; Talks with French poets in 1913-14. Subjects; 1800-1999. French poetry 20th century History and criticism. French poetry 19th century History and criticism. Poets, French. Symbolism (Literary movement). Literary Influence Literary Creation Critical Study Verse Poets.
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