The Sixth Sense : : Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760 / / Robert Finch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Finch, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)

It has long been the custom to condemn eighteenth-century French poetry outright as generally unworthy of attention. However, in keeping with a recent change of attitude towards this vast and diverse body of literature, Professor Finch here undertakes to isolate a certain group of poets, belonging to the first half of the century, who may appropriately be called individualistes and who are in various ways characteristic of a definite and important trend of their time. The authors he has chosen were selected from the larger group of individualists because each provides, in addition to his poems, a complete statement of his own conception of poetry and of that conception which is common to the group as a whole. Since the works treated are comparatively unfamiliar the author has considered them from a historical and an analytical as well as a critical point of view. In addition he has devoted three special chapters to a literary historian (Evrard Titon du Tillet) and to three critical theorists (Jean-Baptiste Dubos, Yves-Marie André, and Charles Batteux) whose contemporary writings, while they may or may not have influenced the poets here examined, support, reflect, or confirm their ideas and practice. Texts of these poets are not easily available and the numerous representative "ations from the poems given in this book will be welcomed by the reader.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER ONE. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER TWO. SEGRAIS, SAINT-EVREMOND, PERRAULT: LE GÉNIE (1686) -- CHAPTER THREE. FÉNELON Qualities rather than Forms -- CHAPTER FOUR. FONTENELLE Originality before Convention -- CHAPTER FIVE. LA MOTTE A New Anatomy of Poetry -- CHAPTER SIX. CHAULIEU AND LA FARE: Diction a Matter of Temperament -- CHAPTER SEVEN. EARLY CHAMPIONS -- CHAPTER EIGHT. LATER ASSESSORS -- CHAPTER NINE. J.-B. ROUSSEAU. Trouver la clef de l'âme -- CHAPTER TEN. GRESSET. Créer ou se taire -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. LEFRANC DE POMPIGNAN Rêver des mots -- CHAPTER TWELVE. BERNIS. II faut sentir pour savoir l'art de peindre -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. RACINE. Poésie engagée -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. LEBRUN: LE GÉNIE (1760), AND AFTER -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX