1st Edition

Sensibility and Creation Studies in Twentieth-Century French Poetry

Edited By Roger Cardinal Copyright 1977
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

Sensibility and Creation (1977) comprises a dozen critical studies by different contributors on a selection of major French poets of the twentieth century. These range from poets of long-established reputation, such as Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse and Paul Eluard, to contemporary poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Jacques Dupin. The guiding theme is that of the characteristic... Read more

Introduction Roger Cardinal.  1. Valéry and the Image of the Tree-Top Christine M. Crow  2. Apollinaire’s Solar Imagery David Berry  3. Eyes and Seeing in the Poetry of Pierre Reverdy Michael Bishop  4. From the Labyrinth of Language to the Language of the Senses: the Poetry of André Breton Michael Sheringham  5. Jules Supervielle: a Poetry of Diffidence Graham Dunstan Martin  6. The World and the Word in Saint-John Perse Roger Little  7. Jean Follain: Objects in Time Pierre Calderon  8. Paul Eluard Malcolm Bowie  9. The Image of Night in René Char’s Poetry Nick Caistor  10. Francis Ponge Ian Higgins  11. Yves Bonnefoy: the Sense of Things John D. Price  12. Jacques Dupin Roger Cardinal

Biography

Roger Cardinal was an art scholar and Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking Outsider Art (1972), a book that introduced the English-speaking world to the concept of art brut.