Title: Poeticized language
First published: 1999
Description: "Contemporary French poetry is unique in that it places a great emphasis on language itself. In this book, Jean-Jacques Thomas and Steven Winspur focus on the linguistic aspects of recent poems written in French. From Apollinaire and Eluard to the Oulipians, from the specialists to Yves Bonnefoy and Andree Chedid, from Max Jacob and Saint-John Perse to Edouard Glissant and Denis Roche, this book analyzes the innovations crafted by more than fifty writers.

With its eleven chapters and extensive bibliography, this is the most comprehensive English-language introduction to French poetry of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: French language, History and criticism, French poetry, Versification, Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -, Literary Criticism, Poetry, French, Continental European, European - French, 20th century, French poetry, history and criticism, French language, versification
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PQ441 .T465 1999