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In An Essay on French VerseFor Readers of English Poetry, Jacques Barzun addresses the baffling English prejudice against French poetry. Barzuns manyfaceted and entertaining study muses on six hundred years of French verse, its rules and forms and how they evolved. It also has significant sections on the French language itself, its sounds and difficulties; on verse music in language generally; on the character and achievements of the greatest French poets; and finally, on the social and political conditions that encouraged successive innovations, including the prevailing wordwide practice of free verse. The Essay, moreover, draws not only on a lifetimes reading, but on personal reminiscences as well: of stuffy poetry lessons in the French lyce; of the poet Apollinaire expounding his views on language to amuse the child sitting on his knee; of the authors greatgrandmother telling him about proper French pronunciation, as it was in her youth, eighty years earlier. In sum, Barzuns book goes a long way toward answering the question posed in 1917 by A. E. Housman to Andr Gide: How is it that every nation has produced poetry except France?
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