The recovery of French studies.--French before sunrise.--The assault on French literature.--Modern humanities in the technological age.--Proficiency in modern languages.--The formal method arraigned.--The English approach to Ronsard.--Baudelaire's poem, Le cygne.--Laforgue's vers libre and the form of The waste land.--Verlaine and Rimbaud.--Introducing Du caot e de chez Swann.--Andrae Gide; Angles of approach.--Appendix, A review of R. M. Alb eraes: L'Aventure intellectuelle du XXe siaecle.
