The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy - John Naughton - Books - The University of Chicago Press - 9780226569475 - June 1, 1984
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The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy


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Yves Bonnefoy is the most important and influential French poet to have emerged since the Second World War. Poet, art critic, historian, translator (particularly of Shakespeare), specialist in the problem of the relation of poetry to the visual arts and to the history of religions, Bonnefoy is now considered one of the most distinguished men of letters of his generation.

Though Bonnefoy's work is familiar to American scholars, the complexity of his thought and style has created a need for a critical introduction to his work. This first major study of Bonnefoy written in English provides an overview of his entire literary career. Naughton situates Bonnefoy in the context of the existential philosophical tradition that nurtured him and in the poetic and artistic tradition that includes Dante and Shakespeare, Piero and Poussin, Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Bonnefoy's poems appear in both French and English, and all quotations from his prose have been translated.

This book will appeal not only to the growing number of students and scholars of French literature interested in Bonnefoy's work, but also to those who study comparative poetry and the relation of poetry to art and to contemporary religious thought.


224 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 1, 1984
ISBN13 9780226569475
Publishers The University of Chicago Press
Pages 224
Dimensions 150 × 220 × 20 mm   ·   510 g
Language English  

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