Background of Modern French Poetry - Essays and Interviews

Informationen zum Autor Amelina Jones is an illustrator with a passion or nature, tea, and stories. She works in traditional watercolor and ink, incorporating storytelling elements and emotions into her work. the gentle form of watercolor mixed with her unique, whimsical style creates illustrations that aim to enhance a story and bring it to life. Klappentext This book explores the nature of literary influence in literary creation! as well as aspects of French poetry after Baudelaire. Zusammenfassung Originally published in 1951! this book explores the nature of literary influence! and its part in literary creation! as found at work in some aspects of French poetry after Baudelaire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Three Major Influences: 1. Swedenborg, Baudelaire and their intermediaries; 2. Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarmé: a problem of literary judgement; 3. Poe and Baudelaire: the 'affinity'; 4. Whitman and the Symbolists; Part II. The Emergence of the Vers Libre; 5. From poetical prose to the prose-poem; 6. The vers libéré; 7. The first theory of the vers libre; 8. Whitman and the origins of the vers libre; 9. Talks with French poets in 1913-1914; Bibliographies; Index to proper names; Index to periodicals.

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• Authors: Jones, P. Mansell Jones, P. Mansell (University of Manchester) Jones, P.mansell Jones, Percy Mansell Jones
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521133999
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13399-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies