Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The poem as hypothesis of origin: Lamartine's ‘Le Lac’
- 3 The rhetoric of contemplation: Hugo's ‘La Pente de la rêverie’
- 4 The designs of prosody: Vigny's ‘La Mort du Loup’
- 5 The lyric persona: Nerval's ‘El Desdichado’
- 6 Under-reading at noon: Leconte de Lisle's ‘Midi’
- 7 Intertextuality and interpretation: Baudelaire's ‘Correspondances’
- 8 Questions of metaphor: Gautier's ‘La Nue’
- 9 Training for modernity: Verlaine's ‘Le Paysage dans le cadre des portières …’
- 10 Sylleptic symbols: Rimbaud's ‘Mémoire’
- 11 Poetry and cliché: Laforgue's ‘L'Hiver qui vient’
- 12 Genius at nightfall: Mallarmé's ‘Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi …’
- Appendix: French versification: a summary
- References and suggestions for further reading
- Index
Preface
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The poem as hypothesis of origin: Lamartine's ‘Le Lac’
- 3 The rhetoric of contemplation: Hugo's ‘La Pente de la rêverie’
- 4 The designs of prosody: Vigny's ‘La Mort du Loup’
- 5 The lyric persona: Nerval's ‘El Desdichado’
- 6 Under-reading at noon: Leconte de Lisle's ‘Midi’
- 7 Intertextuality and interpretation: Baudelaire's ‘Correspondances’
- 8 Questions of metaphor: Gautier's ‘La Nue’
- 9 Training for modernity: Verlaine's ‘Le Paysage dans le cadre des portières …’
- 10 Sylleptic symbols: Rimbaud's ‘Mémoire’
- 11 Poetry and cliché: Laforgue's ‘L'Hiver qui vient’
- 12 Genius at nightfall: Mallarmé's ‘Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi …’
- Appendix: French versification: a summary
- References and suggestions for further reading
- Index
Summary
I should like to express my gratitude to all the contributors to this volume, notably for their patience and good humour in the face of some – albeit necessary – editorial harassment. I am particularly grateful to Clive Scott, who, in addition to contributing his essay on Vigny, kindly agreed to write the discursive glossary on French versification. I also wish to express my thanks to Terry Moore and Kate Brett for their support as editors at Cambridge University Press.
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- Nineteenth-Century French PoetryIntroductions to Close Reading, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990