1st Edition
An Introduction to the French Poets Villon to the Present Day
Preface to the Revised Edition, 1. François Villon, 2. Pierre de Ronsard, 3. Joachim Du Bellay, 4. Other Sixteenth-Century Poets, 5. François Malherbe: the Baroque and the Classic, 6. Irregular Seventeenth-Century Poets, 7. Jean Racine, 8. Jean de La Fontaine, 9. André Chénier, 10. Alphonse de Lamartine, 11. Alfred de Vigny, 12. Victor Hugo, 13. Alfred de Musset, 14. Charles Baudelaire, 15. Leconte de Lisle and Heredia, 16. Paul Verlaine, 17. Arthur Rimbaud, 18. Stéphane Mallarmé, 19. Other Nineteenth-Century Poets, 20. Claudel and Apollinaire, 21. Paul Valéry, 22. The Impact of Surrealism, 23. Some Other Modern Poets, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Geoffrey Brereton
Review for the original 1973 edition:
‘Any reader who, like myself, enjoys French poetry without being an expert on it, will be enlightened and stimulated… Enjoying the works that he discusses, he makes his enjoyment infectious. I believe this to be the first duty of the critic, and I firmly recommend this book.’
Raymond Mortimer, Sunday Times
