Sensibility and Creation (1977) comprises a dozen critical studies by different contributors on a selection of major French poets of the twentieth century. These range from poets of long-established reputation, such as Paul Valéry, Pierre Reverdy, Saint-John Perse and Paul Eluard, to contemporary poets such as Yves Bonnefoy and Jacques Dupin. The guiding theme is that of the characteristic sensibility which informs the creative work of each poet: the way he has of selecting and patterning the elements which make up the world he inhabits and which in a sense he is also creating. In some instances the poetry is examined for its selective textures and shapes, and in others the critical focus is more closely directed to the linguistic and stylistic strategies adopted by the writer.
Introduction Roger Cardinal.
1. Valéry and the Image of the Tree-Top
Christine M. Crow
2. Apollinaires Solar Imagery David Berry
3. Eyes and
Seeing in the Poetry of Pierre Reverdy Michael Bishop
4. From the Labyrinth
of Language to the Language of the Senses: the Poetry of André Breton Michael
Sheringham
5. Jules Supervielle: a Poetry of Diffidence Graham Dunstan Martin
6. The World and the Word in Saint-John Perse Roger Little
7. Jean Follain:
Objects in Time Pierre Calderon
8. Paul Eluard Malcolm Bowie
9. The Image of
Night in René Chars Poetry Nick Caistor
10. Francis Ponge Ian Higgins
11.
Yves Bonnefoy: the Sense of Things John D. Price
12. Jacques Dupin Roger
Cardinal
Roger Cardinal was an art scholar and Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking Outsider Art (1972), a book that introduced the English-speaking world to the concept of art brut.
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