The Background of Modern French Poetry : Essays and Interviews (Paperback)

Preface; Part I. Three Major Influences: 1. Swedenborg, Baudelaire and their intermediaries; 2. Poe, Baudelaire and Mallarme: a problem of literary judgement; 3. Poe and Baudelaire: the 'affinity'; 4. Whitman and the Symbolists; Part II. The Emergence of the Vers Libre; 5. From poetical prose to the prose-poem; 6. The vers libere; 7. The first theory of the vers libre; 8. Whitman and the origins of the vers libre; 9. Talks with French poets in 1913?1914; Bibliographies; Index to proper names; Index to periodicals.