This book centers on the revolutionary French symbolist movement of the last part of the 19th century, translated by Emmett Parker. Peyre gets to the heart of the subject, through provocative lines.
Jacques Riviere knew how to accept art emotionally. No French critic was ever less a traditional pedagogue. RiviTre was an intelligent French writer, who knew that the summit of the intellect is to ad
Jules Laforgue (1860-1887) was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. Although he lived only 27 years, he had a major impact on many important poets in the 20th century. He himself was
