The Road from Paris: French Influence on English Poetry, 1900-1920

Abstract

Preface General critical and historical introduction: The Road from Paris 1. Flint, the Haiku, and the Symbolists: Recent Verse F. S. Flint 2. Bergson and the avant garde: art and philosophy John Middleton Murray 3. Bergson and the theory of modern French poetry: review of the De Visan's L'Attitude du Lyrisme contemporain T. E. Hulme 4. Correspondence with Les Jeunes: thirteen letters on French poetry in 1912 5. The first major survey of the French avant garde: contemporary French poetry F. S. Flint 6. A French account of the French contemporaries: Lettre de France, II-V 7. The move toward classicism: French books - a classical revival John Middleton Murray 8. Modern French poetry: Pound's first important view: The Approach to Paris, I-VII Ezra Pound 9. A quarterly report on French poetry 1913-1914: French Chronicle I-VIII F. S. Flint 10. Aldington on de Gourmont: Remy de Gourmont's Le Latin Mystique Richard Aldington 11. New French poetry in 1914: some recent French poems Richard Aldington 12. De Gourmont and the concept of tradition: tradition and other things Remy de Gourmont 13. Nicolas Beauduin and a French correlative to futurism: the new poetry of France Nicolas Beauduin 14. Lautreamont, via Gourmont and Aldington: Lautreamont Remy de Gourmont 15. Aldington on a French satirist: Laurent Tailhade Richard Aldington 16. Imagism and French poetry: the history of imagism F. S. Flint 17. Early recognition of a new symbolist: Paul Valery's La Jeune Parque John Middleton Murray 18. A continuing trend toward classicism: art and tradition Aldous Huxley 19. Modern poetry and modern painting: cubism and the modern artistic sensibility Andre Lhote 20. A selective view of a new generation, 1920: young French verse Aldous Huxley Appendix Index.