Order and Adventure in Post-Romantic French Poetry : Essays Presented to C. A. Hackett

London England: Basil Blackwall. Good/Good. 1973. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0631151605 Hardback Hardback. First Edition. Closed tear to bottom edge of spine of cloth. Repair to bottom edge of spine of D/J. Slight wear to corners of D/J. it was Apollinaire who proclaimed the need to combine order and adventure in the writing of poetry; but the tendencies towards tradition and formal discipline on the one hand, and experiment and innovation on the other, are to be seen throughout the century and a half since Nerval and Baudelaire. The poets fiscussed in the twenty essays including in the volume, range in time from Nerval and Baudelaire to Desnos and Aragon, and the treatment varies from the close textual analysis of individual poems to a general 'placing' of certain poets against the intellectual background of their age. Attenton is paid to the poeme en prose, and there is a general discussion of the contribution made by 'order', as well as 'adventure', to the freedom of the imagination in the post-Romantic era. This approach results in a multiple presentation of the work of several poets. Baudelaire, Mallame, Apollinaire and Valery are all the subject of more than one essay and receive very different forms of exposition by scholars writing from various critical standpoints. Catholicity of approach is also to be found in the inclusion of essays on poets insufficiently know in this country - e.g. Jouve, Jacob and Reverdy. 269 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .