Table of Contents

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.

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A review of the channelling into English writing the ideas and theories of the French poetic avant-garde.