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Gentle Reader
Yves
Bonnefoy was France’s pre-eminent post-war poet; to add to his resume though,
he was also a translator of Shakespeare, and an art critic, in the vein of
Baudelaire. Despite his humble roots and beginnings, Bonnefoy studied mathematics
and philosophy, at the Sorbonne, and after World War II, traveled around Europe
and the United States, and studied art history. During this time he was
associated with the surrealists, whose influence was never long lasting and
could only be seen on his first published collection. His breakthrough in
poetry was the intimate “On the Motion and Immobility of Douve.” This
breakthrough book showcased his mature and own style of poetry, a deceptive
simplicity in its vocabulary. After the publication of “On the Motion and
Immobility of Douve,” and the subsequent collections of poetry, Yves Bonnefoy
would become France’s most prominent poet, and would be elected as the Chair of
Comparative Poetics at the Collège de France. Bonnefoy would also teach in Britain
and the United States. Despite all of this though, Yves Bonnefoy would be seen
by new readers as abstract and obscure in his poetic dealings, and yet remained
unapologetic for his chosen form of writing, and for the way he wrote it. Yves
Bonnefoy wrote, and revitalized French poetry after the Second World War, he
was both a connoisseur, critic, and intellect when it came to language, poetry,
philosophy and art; and will be remembered for his service to French poetry and
its language. France has certainly lost one of its greatest keepers of the
French language, and innovators of French poetry.
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M.
Mary
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