Overview
Although internationally renowned as a novelist, journalist, and essayist, Nobel Prize-winning author Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) never established a reputation as a poet. Yet it was Maurice Barres's favourable review of his first collection of verse, Les Mains jointes, that launched Mauriac's career in 1910. He went on to publish 3 further collections of poems and insisted to the end of his life that, despite critical neglect of his verse, he remained first and foremost a poet. This book offers the first ever in-depth exploration of the whole of Mauriac's verse output. After a chapter tracing his general conception of poetry and comparing his ideas to those of other poets and theorists, each of Mauriac's verse collections is analysed in turn, as are many of his poems that were published exclusively in literary journals. A final chapter explores the significant relationship between Mauriac's verse and his novels, revealing the multiple connections between them."
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- ISBN-13: 9789042008489
- ISBN-10: 9042008482
- Publisher: Brill
- Publish Date: January 2003
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.1 x 0.64 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.87 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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