French Individualist Poetry 1686-1760: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781487595203
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature;

This anthology has a double aim: to present a body of poetry, none of it easily available, some of it never before reproduced, and to point up a particular trend, individualist, until now nearly lost sight of in the maze of generalizations about eighteenth-century French poetry.


Finch Robert :

Robert Finch (1900-1995), scholar, poet, painter, musician, and theatrical director, was professor of French in University College, University of Toronto. His poetry won the Governor-General's award twice, in 1946 an 1961. He received the Lorne Pierce medal in 1968. Among his other books are The Sixth Sense: Individualism in French Poetry, 1686-1760 , Acis in Oxford (both published by the University of Toronto Press), and Silverthorn Bush (1966).

Joliat Eugène :

Eugène Joliat was a professor emeritus and past chairman of the Graduate Department of French in the University of Toronto. He published numerous articles and reviews in schoarly journals and a book, Smollett et la France .

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