The Penguin Book of French Poetry: 1820-1950 by Various & William Rees

Author:Various & William Rees [Various & Rees, William]
Language: fra
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Anthologies (Multiple Authors), European, General, Reference
ISBN: 9780140423853
Google: YAepXCkCPkIC
Amazon: 0140423850
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1992-01-01T09:16:19+00:00

A Renewal of Lyricism

French poetry at the turn of the century reacted in a number of ways against the aesthetic refinements of Symbolism. The most radical and far-reaching changes were initiated by the poets of the city-based Cubist and Modernist movements (see page 511), but another tendency also deserves some recognition. The works which follow by Toulet, Jammes and Fort are part of a widespread desire to restore to French verse an element of spontaneous and unaffected lyricism. This involves a renewal of contact with the organic world, a sensitivity to the natural rhythms of human life, an awareness of the experience, culture and traditional wisdom of ordinary people. In Parisian circles such poets were often belittled for their alleged provincialism and unsophistication, but they struck a chord with a substantial section of the reading public, and indeed the work of that most Parisian of ladies, Anna de Noailles, shares many of their characteristics.

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