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Tables of Contents for Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
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1. Introduction Christopher Prendergast
2. The poem as hypothesis of origin: Lamartine's Le Lac Eric Gans
3. The rhetoric of contemplation: Hugo's La Pente de la ré
verie Victor Brombert
4. The designs of prosody: Vigny's La Mort du loup Clive Scott
5. The lyric persona: Nerval's El Desdichado Rae Beth Gordon
6. Under-reading at noon: Leconte de Lisle's Midi Mary Ann Caws
7. Intertextuality and interpretation: Baudelaire's Correspondances Jonathan Culler
8. Questions of Metaphor: Gautier's La Nue Christopher Prendergast
9. Training for modernity: Verlaine's Le Paysage dans le cadre des portié
res ... Ross Chambers
10. Sylleptic Symbols: Rimbaud's Mé
moire Michael Riffaterre
11. Poetry and cliche: Laforgue's L'Hiver qui vient Peter Collier
12. Genius at nightfall: Mallarmé
's Quand l'ombre menacé
de la fatale loi ... Malcolm Bowie
13. Appendix - French versification: a summary Clive Scott
References and suggestions for further reading.