Poetry in France : metamorphoses of a muse / edited by Keith Aspley and Peter France
1992, 1st edition. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #404032
ISBN: 0748603352
Physical description; 275 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-271). Contents; 1. Legends Told in Song and Story / Philip Bennett -- 2. Troubadours, Trouveres, Poetes / Philip Bennett -- 3. Clowns and Chroniclers / Philip Bennett -- 4. Love-Poetry in the Age of Humanism / Peter Sharratt -- 5. Poetry and Imagination in the Renaissance / Brian Barron -- 6. Poet as Self: Thought and Feeling in the Poetry of the 'Premier Dix-Septieme Siecle' / Ian Revie -- 7. Language of the Gods: Uses of Verse 1650-1800 / Peter France -- 8. Poet as Teacher / Peter France -- 9. Romantic Renaissance / Peter Dayan -- 10. Visions and Voices: the Nature of Inspiration from Romanticism to the Birth of Surrealism / Keith Aspley -- 11. Poetry Dies Again / Peter Dayan -- 12. Banality of Modernism: Order and Adventure in Twentieth-Century Poetry / Ian Revie -- 13. High Formal Poetry / Graham Dunstan Martin -- 14. Surrealism: the Assault on Meaning and the Cult of the Image / Keith Aspley -- 15. Eleven Post-War Directions / Graham Dunstan Martin. Subjects; French poetry History and criticism. French poetry. French poetry History and criticism. France. Romanticism Poetry. Surrealism. Bibliographies < bibliographical forms & other media < books & literature < artistic & cultural themes < intellectual life < personal existence < mankind. Essays < bibliographical forms & other media < books & literature < artistic & cultural themes < intellectual life < personal existence < mankind. Literary histories (Poetry). Medieval romance poems. Modernism (Literature). French poetry History.
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