Author: Little, Roger
Title: The Shaping of Modern French Poetry: Reflections on Unrhymed Poetic Form, 1840-1990
Description: Manchester [UK], Carcanet Press, 1995. orig.wrappers. 22x14cm, vii,117 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ The development of French poetry is marked by formal innovation - poemes en prose, vers libres, versets, calligrammes, lettrisme, spatialisme, poesie concrete, poesie eclatee - which break traditional moulds of versification without abandoning the aesthetic value of poetry. This study focuses on how visual stimuli, in a context of technological progress in communication, have governed poets' responses to the challenge of formal freedom" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Modern Poetry, French Literature, , , , , ,