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Author Lewis, Roy, 1922-

Title On reading French verse : a study of poetic form / Roy Lewis
Published Oxford : Clarendon, 1982

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Description xvi, 256 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Poetry and verse -- Scansion -- The alexandrine -- Phonetic patterning -- Stanza form -- The rules of rime -- Sound and sense -- Commentaries: On a sonnet by Ronsard -- Commentaries: On Baudelaire's Le Cygne
Analysis Poetry in French. Recitation. Intonation
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Includes index
Subject French language -- Versification.
French poetry -- History and criticism.
Intonation (Phonetics)
French poetry.
Oral interpretation of poetry.
LC no. 82217012
ISBN 0198157754
0198157835 (paperback)