The Sixth Sense - Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760 (Paperback)

It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the century, who may appropriately be called individualistes and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time. The authors he has chosen were selected from the larger group of individualists because each provides, in addition to his poems, a complete statement of his own conception of poetry and of that conception which is common to the group as a whole. Since the works treated are comparatively unfamiliar the author has considered them from a historical and an analytical as well as a critical point of view. In addition he has devoted three special chapters to a literary historian (Evrard Titon du Tillet) and to three critical theorists (Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Yves-Marie Andre, and Charles Batteux) whose contemporary writings, while they may or may not have influenced the poets here examined, support, reflect, or confirm their ideas and practice. Texts of these poets are not easily available and the numerous representative quotations from the poems given in this book will be welcomed by the reader.

General

Imprint:	University of Toronto Press
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	December 1966
Authors:	Robert Finch
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	422
ISBN-13:	978-1-4875-9853-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	1-4875-9853-X
Barcode:	9781487598532

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