Prose (Paperback)

Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art criticism, as in his literary essays, Bonnefoy manages that rare thing: to impart metaphysical urgency to each discreet encounter with a painting or a poem, born of his constant quest for intensity, for 'presence'. Whether he is examining an early Byzantine fresco, a Shakespeare play, a Bernini angel, a drawing by Blake, a poem by Rimbaud, the exigency, the high seriousness and the challenge is the same: to affirm presence, and finitude, against all forms of life-sapping conceptual thought. If they cannot always deliver ecstasy or hope, the great poets, argues Bonnefoy, are pledged to 'intensity as such', sustained by 'une mélancolie ardente'.

General

Imprint:	Carcanet Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2020
Authors:	Yves Bonnefoy
Editors:	Anthony Rudolf • Stephen Romer • John Naughton
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	456
ISBN-13:	978-1-78410-811-3
Subtitles:	French
Categories:	Books
LSN:	1-78410-811-1
Barcode:	9781784108113

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