Six French poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme.(Review)(Brief Article)

The Modern Language Review | October 1, 2001| | Copyright

Six French Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme. Ed. by E. H. and A. M. BLACKMORE. (Oxford World's Classics) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2000. xlvii + 334 pp. 7.99 [pounds sterling].

What should an anthology such as this set out to achieve? Not, I think, the further entrenchment of critical prejudice, and yet the Introduction opens with, tumbling over themselves, 'elaborate rules', 'rigid', 'precise', 'complex and inflexible rules'. The 'rigidities' of classical French verse are only too likely to stand in for ...

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