Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment

Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment
Author: Fabienne Moore
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754663188

Tracing the prehistory of the French prose poem, Fabienne Moore demonstrates that the genre emerges nearly a century before it is generally supposed to have existed. Moore links the development of this new genre with the period's thinking about language and poetic invention, as she argues that scientific, philosophical, and socioeconomic upheavals prompted a paradoxical return during the Enlightenment to sources such as Homer, the pastoral, Ossian, the Bible, and primitive eloquence.

Dreaming the Miracle

Dreaming the Miracle
Author:
Publisher: White Pine Press (NY)
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2003
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Which of us...has not dreamed of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical, without rhyme...supple...rugged...?--Baudelaire

Aliss at the Fire (Norwegian Literature Series)

Aliss at the Fire (Norwegian Literature Series)
Author: Jon Fosse
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1564785734

Slim, mournful tale of loss and memory in a coastal Norwegian town, first published in Norway in 2003. The novel opens with a series of shifts in perspective, time and identity that hint at the experimentation that follows. We immediately meet Signe, an aging woman living alone near a fjord. The story is set in 2002, but Signe is soon thinking back to 1979 and the day her husband, Asle, died while boating in the waters.

Invisible Fences

Invisible Fences
Author: Steven Monte
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780803232112

For all its recent popularity among poets and critics, prose poetry continues to raise more questions than it answers. How have prose poems been identified as such, and why have similar works been excluded from the genre? What happens when we read a work as a prose poem? How have prose genres such as the novel affected prose poetry and modern poetry in general? In Invisible Fences Steven Monte places prose poetry in historical and theoretical perspective by comparing its development in the French and American literary traditions. In spite of its apparent formal freedom, prose poetry is constrained by specific historical circumstances and is constantly engaged in border disputes with neighboring prose and poetic genres. Monte illuminates these constraints through an examination of works that have influenced the development of the prose poem as well as through a discussion of genre theory and detailed readings of poems ranging from Charles Baudelaire's "La Solitude" to John Ashbery's "The System." Monte explores the ways in which literary-historical narratives affect interpretation: why, for example, prose poetry tends to be seen as a revolutionary genre and how this perspective influences readings of individual works. The American poets he discusses include Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Ashbery; the French poets range from Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stephane Mallarmä to Max Jacob. In exploring prose poetry as a genre, Invisible Fences offers new perspectives not only on modern poetry, but also on genre itself, challenging current theories of genre with a test case that asks for yet eludes definition.

Selected Poetry and Prose

Selected Poetry and Prose
Author: Stéphane Mallarmé
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780811208239

The essential work of Mallarmé, collected in a bilingual French and English edition.

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry
Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 689
Release: 1984-01-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0394717481

During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world’s greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. “Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited.”—Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review “One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry.”—Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice

Complete Poetry and Prose

Complete Poetry and Prose
Author: Louise Labé
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007-11-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0226467163

Thanks to her acclaimed volume of poetry and prose published in France in 1555, Louise Labé (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Continental Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labé played off the Petrarchan male tradition with wit and irony, and her elegies respond with lyric skill to predecessors such as Sappho and Ovid. The first complete bilingual edition of this singular and broad-ranging female author, Complete Poetry and Prose also features the only translations of Labé's sonnets to follow the exacting rhyme patterns of the originals and the first rhymed translation of Labé's elegies in their entirety.

The Penguin Book of French Poetry

The Penguin Book of French Poetry
Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 946
Release: 2005-02-24
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0141937408

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace. It includes generous selections from all the established giants - among them Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud and Breton - as well as works from a wide variety of less well-known poets such as Claudel and Cendrars, whose innovations proved vital to the progress of poetry in France. The significant literary schools of the time are also represented in sections focusing on such movements as Romanticism, Symbolism, Cubism and Surrealism. Eloquent and inspirational, this rich and exhilarating anthology reveals an era of exceptional vitality.