The Living Voice: A Journey Through French Poetry
Chapters
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Why Read Poetry? Why Read It in French?
- 3. How This Book Works
- 4. A Living Tradition
- 5. An Invitation
- 6. How to Read French Poetry: A Practical Guide
- 7. Songs of War and Faith - The Birth of French Poetry
- 8. The Great Flowering - Renaissance Transformations
- 9. Order and Passion - The Classical Age
- 10. Reason and Feeling - The Enlightenment Transformation
- 11. The Romantic Revolution
- 12. The Shock of the Modern - Baudelaire's Revolution
- 13. The Music of Poetry - Verlaine and the Art of Suggestion
- 14. The Visionary - Arthur Rimbaud's Lightning Revolution
- 15. The Perfect Symbol - Mallarmé's Quest for the Absolute
- 16. Voices from the Trenches - Poetry of the Great War
- 17. Surrealism's Revolution - Automatic Writing and the Unconscious
- 18. Poetry of Resistance - Voices from the Occupation
- 19. Négritude - Voices from the Colonies
- 20. Existentialist Poetry - Confronting the Absurd
- 21. Experimental Revolution - OULIPO and Constraint-Based Poetry
- 22. Postcolonial Voices - New Languages, New Identities
- 23. Women's Liberation - Breaking Poetic Boundaries
- 24. Urban Voices - Slam Poetry and the Banlieues
- 25. LGBTQ+ Poetry - Queer Voices and Identities
- 26. Digital Poetry - New Media, New Forms
- 27. Environmental Poetry - Eco-Consciousness and Climate Change
- 28. Global French - Poetry in the Digital Age