The French poetry of some five centuries is here surveyed in a
series of studies of the work and personality of individual poets
from Villon to the present day. Each chapter is primarily concerned
with establishing the 'literary identity' of the poet or poets with
whom it deals: the work of each is outlined and related to the
historical and biographical circumstances in which it was written;
and its characteristics are then examined critically in terms
relevant to the modern reader. Comparisons are made between
different poets, and more general topics - such as the concepts of
'classic' and 'baroque' - are discussed. This book, first published
in 1956, had become a standard introductory work for students of
French poetry and general readers alike. For this revised edition,
originally published in 1973, new chapters have been added on
'irregular' seventeenth-century poets and on various modern poets
whose work now enables the Surrealist movement to be seen in
clearer perspective. The bibliography has been revised extensively.
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