Publisher's Synopsis
The revised and enlarged second edition of the most comprehensive and scholarly anthology of French baroque poetry ever compiled. Includes detailed introductory chapters, by major specialists, on the concept of the baroque, French literary language in the 17th century, and versification. Each poet's selections meticulously edited, richly annotated, and exhaustively introduced by an international team of scholars distinguished for their books and articles on the texts and their backgrounds. Target audience: advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and university teachers of French and comparative literature, early modernism, and poetics.
