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The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950) (Paperback)
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The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry (1850-1950) (Paperback)
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Biographies of poets are often rich in human interest; manuals of
literary history can be full of broad insight and suggestive
parallels. But it is all too easy to let the study of French poetry
drift towards lives, loves and -isms and away from the appreciation
of its supremely creative use of language. Born of the belief that
the proper study of poetry is the poem itself, this book seeks to
concentrate on the poetic process at work on the page. Its aim is
to encourage the student and the general reader to penetrate the
textual richness of modern French verse where verbal artistry
combines so powerfully with imaginative vision. The full
introduction deals with such questions as metre and rhythm, uses of
verse-form, sonority, imagery and structure, studying them not in
the abstract but in particular, 'living' contexts. This leads on to
detailed commentaries on individual poems illustrating, after the
consideration of the problems of reading poetry in general, how one
might approach poems as artistic unities in their own right. These
guided commentaries are essentially an invitation to the reader to
explore certain paths into the poem for himself. They do not
provide a wrapped, sealed and delivered explanation; they call for
and depend upon the reader's active involvement. Both the
illustrations of the introduction and the commentary texts are
taken from the fourteen poets who feature in the companion volume
to this work, An Anthology of Modern French Poetry. In this way a
complete overlap is created, and one is invited to pass from
preliminary exercises in appreciation into the wider, more
stimulating world of a fully balanced anthology.
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