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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Si l’on excepte ses poèmes en dialecte frioulan, Poésie en forme de rose est le quatrième recueil de Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975). Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir...

This volume offers a coherent view of post-romantic poetic development through selective examples both of individual poems and of poetic influence. Bornstein focuses most centrally on Browning in the Victorian period and Yeats and Pound in the Modern, but also looks more briefly at works by Wordsworth,...

On the Great Atlantic Railway is Kenneth's Koch's inspired collection of 32 years of work. Koch, David Lehman said in The American Poetry Review, is "a masterly innovator . . . who has used his extravagant powers of wit and invention to enlarge the sphere of the poetic . . . he has stretched our ideas of what it is possible to do in poetry."

Robert Browning, the great Victorian poet, is often claimed to be hard to understand, largely on account of the obscurity of his language, the complexity of his thought, and his poetic style. The Browning Cyclopaedia, first published in 1891, presents an exposition of the prominent ideas of each poem,...

A surprisingly large number of English poets have either belonged to a secret society, or been strongly influenced by its tenets. One of the best known examples is Christopher Smart’s membership of the Freemasons, and the resulting influence of Masonic doctrines on A Song to David. However, many...

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Dans l’œuvre du poète Mario Luzi (1914-2005), né à Florence, qui, se libérant de Pétrarque et de Mallarmé, semble, sur un arc de sept décennies, tendre toujours davantage vers une poésie polyphonique, perpétuellement...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis À la suite du Crève-Cœur (avril 1941), qui avait marqué son retour à la poésie après dix ans d’interruption, Louis Aragon (1897-1982) publie en mars 1942 aux Cahiers du Rhône, à Neufchâtel, Les Yeux d’Elsa. Une...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Publiée en 1572, écrite en ottava rima (strophes de huit décasyllabes) par le poète Luiz Vaz de Camões (1524-1580), la grande épopée nationale du Portugal, comportant près de neuf mille vers, est divisée en dix chants. Une...

"He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz's...

Extrait : "C'est en vain qu'au Parnasse un téméraire auteur Pense de l'art des vers atteindre la hauteur : S'il ne sent point du ciel l'influence secrète, Si son astre en naissant ne l'a formé poète, Dans son génie étroit il est toujours captif ; Pour lui Phébus est sourd et Pégase est rétif."À...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Un auteur sans image réclamant son « anéantissement complet » (Isidore Ducasse, alias le comte de Lautréamont, 1846-1870). Un livre sans auteur, une épopée sans héros assignable, deux noms (Lautréamont, Maldoror) que...

Visual poetry can be defined as poetry that is meant to be seen. Combining painting and poetry, it attempts to synthesize the principles underlying each discipline. Visual poems are immediately recognizable by their refusal to adhere to a rectilinear grid and by their tendency to flout their plasticity....

The writing of Fernando Pessoa reveals a mind shaken by intense inner suffering. In these poems he adopted four separate personae: Alberto Caeiro, Alvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reis and himself, using them to express 'great swarms of thought and feeling'. While each personae has its own poetic identity,...