The Pleasure of Poetry

The Pleasure of Poetry

Commentaries on Breton, Char, Éluard, Mallarmé, Supervielle, Vigny... Category : Literature Author : Georges Mounin F0007 : Cent mille signes Size : 10 x 17 cm/ Paper Cover 144 pages / Colour + black & white French Agone ISBN : 9782748902358 / 9,50 € Release date : Rights available

These fifteen articles chronicle the writings of Guillaume Apollinaire, Louis Aragon, André Breton, René Char, François Dodat, Paul Éluard, Nazim Hikmet, Victor Hugo, Stéphane Mallarmé, Henry de Montherlant, Saint-Pol Roux, Gaston Puel, Eugène Guillevic, Pierre Reverdy, Jules Supervielle, Paul Valéry, and Alfred de Vigny. They are followed by a discussion about poetry as seen by the linguist, semiologist, militant communist and resistance fighter Louis Leboucher, alias Georges Mounin (1910-1993).