Prose

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book_author_name: 
Yves Bonnefoy
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Paperback
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Carcanet Press Ltd
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27/02/2020
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9781784108113
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Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > Prose: non-fiction > Literary essays
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Yves Bonnefoy|Paperback|Carcanet Press Ltd|27/02/2020
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9781784108113
Book Description: 
Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016), a major poet, was equally a seminal essayist and thinker. This companion volume to Yves Bonnefoy: Poems contains what he regarded as his foundational essays, as well as a generous selection from all periods. In his art criticism, as in his literary essays, Bonnefoy manages that rare thing: to impart metaphysical urgency to each discreet encounter with a painting or a poem, born of his constant quest for intensity, for 'presence'. Whether he is examining an early Byzantine fresco, a Shakespeare play, a Bernini angel, a drawing by Blake, a poem by Rimbaud, the exigency, the high seriousness and the challenge is the same: to affirm presence, and finitude, against all forms of life-sapping conceptual thought. If they cannot always deliver ecstasy or hope, the great poets, argues Bonnefoy, are pledged to 'intensity as such', sustained by 'une melancolie ardente'.

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