French Individualist Poetry 1686-1760 - An Anthology (Paperback)

This anthology has a double aim: to present a body of poetry, none of it easily available, some of it never before reproduced, and to point up a particular trend, until now nearly lost sight of in the maze of generalizations about eighteenth-century French poetry. This trend, called individualist, in contradistinction to the academic and universalist trends of the century, has been chosen since it is the least known and most original of the three. The individualist poets are avowed moderns, and their attitude toward poetry and their concept of its nature often anticipate attitudes held by our poets of our own time. There has not been available to this point a sufficiently representative body of poems by these poets, a gap that Professors Finch and Joliat have attempts to fill with their anthology. Readers will find the notes to the poems especially useful, since many of them provide out-of-the-way background material and, as well, offer new insights into the poetry of the individualist poets as a group.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 1971
Editors:	Robert Finch • Eugene Joliat
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-9852-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	1-4875-9852-1
Barcode:	9781487598525

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