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This work is a guide to the reading of Dante's great poem, intended
for the use of students and laymen, particularly those who are
approaching the Inferno for the first time. While carefully
pointing out the uniqueness, tone, and color of each of Dante's
thirty-four cantos, Fowlie never loses sight of the continuity of
the poet's discourse. Each canto is related thematically to others,
and the rich web of symbols is displayed and disentangled as the
poem's unity, patterns, and structures are revealed. What
particularly distinguishes Wallace Fowlie's reading of the Inferno
is his emphasis on both the timelessness and the timeliness of
Dante's masterpiece. By underlining the archetypal elements in the
poem and drawing parallels to contemporary literature, Fowlie has
brought Dante and his characters much closer to modern readers.
Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: "Micromégas," by Voltaire; "The Atheist's Mass" by Balzac; "The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler" by Flaubert; "Spleen of Paris" by Baudelaire; "Minuet" by de Maupassant; "The Guest" by Camus, and four more. Accurate English translations appear on pages facing the original French. Also included are a French-English vocabulary list, oral and writing exercises. Critical introductions.
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.
Four Essays On Peguy, Rouault, Maritain And Myths Of Modern Poetry.
Four Essays On Peguy, Rouault, Maritain And Myths Of Modern Poetry.
Includes References To Proust, Gide, Mauriac, Leon Bloy, Claudel And More.
Includes References To Proust, Gide, Mauriac, Leon Bloy, Claudel And More.
Four Essays On Peguy, Rouault, Maritain And Myths Of Modern Poetry.
Four Essays On Peguy, Rouault, Maritain And Myths Of Modern Poetry.
Includes References To Proust, Gide, Mauriac, Leon Bloy, Claudel And More.
"The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--Rimbaud In 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band
the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature
and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for
producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud.
He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don't read French
that easily. . . . I am a rock singer and your book travels around
with me." Fourteen years later, when Fowlie first heard the music
of the Doors, he recognized the influence of Rimbaud in Morrison's
lyrics.
Wallace Fowlie provides an uncommonly well-written survey of French Symbolism by way of analyzing key poems in relation to the historical and literary contexts in which they were written. The literary symbol, as it has been used since Baudelaire's time, has in Fowlie's view a closer relationship with the religious spirit of humanity than with any practical or didactic use. Symbolism has been a major focus of literary study since Baudelaire's Correspondances, which can be seen as a succinct manifesto. It has provided an aesthetic basis for works that have elements of both myth and allegory. These are among the most impressive works of literature since 1850, which have reacted strongly against a realistic art of precision in order to reflect preoccupations that are religious and philosophical. After tracing the background of Symbolism from Romanticism to "Art for Art's Sake," Fowlie considers the work of Nerval, Baudelaire, Mallarme, Rimbaud, Laforgue, Corbiere, and Verlaine. He then recapitulates the major features of Symbolism and illustrates its continuity to our day. Fowlie sees Symbolism and modern poetry not as the art of rules and obstacles, but rather as the art of triumph over obstacles and the transcendence of human adventure and experience. He concludes with penetrating analyses of the poetic practice of Valery, Claudel, St. John Perse, and Rene Char.
The "enfant terrible" of French letters, Jean-Nicholas-Arthur
Rimbaud (1854-91) was a defiant and precocious youth who wrote some
of the most remarkable prose and poetry of the nineteenth century,
all before leaving the world of verse by the age of twenty-one.
More than a century after his death, the young rebel-poet continues
to appeal to modern readers as much for his turbulent life as for
his poetry; his stormy affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine and
his nomadic adventures in eastern Africa are as iconic as his
hallucinatory poems and symbolist prose.
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