Robert W. Greene, professor emeritus of French, University at Albany, State University of New York, is the author of The Poetic Theory of Pierre Reverdy (University of California Press, 1967), Six French Poets of Our Time (Princeton University Press, 1979) and Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), and the editor of Dalhousie French Studies, 21 (Fall-Winter 1991), devoted to “Art Criticism by French Poets Since World War II”.

• PrefacePart I. Historical Background1. Baudelaire’s Salons as a Source Book2. The Emergence of Poésie CritiquePart II. A Twentieth-Century Context3. Apollinaire, Malraux and a Space for Poésie Critique4. Other Options for Poésie Critique : Ponge and Char5. A Bonnefoy Mentor : Pierre Jean JouvePart III. Yves Bonnefoy’s Art Criticism6. Gothic Murals and Baroque Excess7. Giacometti and Presence8. From the Quattrocento to Tiepolo9. Twentieth-Century Art10. Presence in Delacroix and Shakespeare11. Forms of ExchangePart IV. Bonnefoy’s Legacy12. A Bonnefoy Heir: Claude EstebanBibliographyIndex

Robert W. Greene, professor emeritus of French, University at Albany, State University of New York, is the author of The Poetic Theory of Pierre Reverdy (University of California Press, 1967), Six French Poets of Our Time (Princeton University Press, 1979) and Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), and the editor of Dalhousie French Studies, 21 (Fall-Winter 1991), devoted to “Art Criticism by French Poets Since World War II”.

• PrefacePart I. Historical Background1. Baudelaire’s Salons as a Source Book2. The Emergence of Poésie CritiquePart II. A Twentieth-Century Context3. Apollinaire, Malraux and a Space for Poésie Critique4. Other Options for Poésie Critique : Ponge and Char5. A Bonnefoy Mentor : Pierre Jean JouvePart III. Yves Bonnefoy’s Art Criticism6. Gothic Murals and Baroque Excess7. Giacometti and Presence8. From the Quattrocento to Tiepolo9. Twentieth-Century Art10. Presence in Delacroix and Shakespeare11. Forms of ExchangePart IV. Bonnefoy’s Legacy12. A Bonnefoy Heir: Claude EstebanBibliographyIndex