Philippe Jaccottet

Introduction Most readers approach contemporary French verse with trepidation, suspecting (often rightly) that what they are being asked to read will prove to be puzzling, gratuitous, angular, abstract, inflated and . doctrinaire, bearing little resemblance to poetry as it is understood in the...

FRENCH DRAWING OF THE XX CENTURY IT IS DIFFICULT to analyse any one aspect of the artistic achievement of the past fifty years such as drawing, and one cannot lightly undertake such an enterprise. Our century has seen so many movements, so many new directions which have not been taken up and...