French Poetry

Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of French poetry across the centuries.

28 chapters • ~100 min read

# The Living Voice: A Journey Through French Poetry

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Why Read Poetry? Why Read It in French?
  3. How This Book Works
  4. A Living Tradition
  5. An Invitation
  6. How to Read French Poetry: A Practical Guide
  7. Chapter 1: Songs of War and Faith - The Birth of French Poetry
  8. Chapter 2: The Great Flowering - Renaissance Transformations
  9. Chapter 3: Order and Passion - The Classical Age
  10. Chapter 4: Reason and Feeling - The Enlightenment Transformation
  11. Chapter 5: The Romantic Revolution
  12. Chapter 6: The Shock of the Modern - Baudelaire's Revolution
  13. Chapter 7: The Music of Poetry - Verlaine and the Art of Suggestion
  14. Chapter 8: The Visionary - Arthur Rimbaud's Lightning Revolution
  15. Chapter 9: The Perfect Symbol - Mallarmé's Quest for the Absolute
  16. Chapter 10: Voices from the Trenches - Poetry of the Great War
  17. Chapter 11: Surrealism's Revolution - Automatic Writing and the Unconscious
  18. Chapter 12: Poetry of Resistance - Voices from the Occupation
  19. Chapter 13: Négritude - Voices from the Colonies
  20. Chapter 14: Existentialist Poetry - Confronting the Absurd
  21. Chapter 15: Experimental Revolution - OULIPO and Constraint-Based Poetry
  22. Chapter 16: Postcolonial Voices - New Languages, New Identities
  23. Chapter 17: Women's Liberation - Breaking Poetic Boundaries
  24. Chapter 18: Urban Voices - Slam Poetry and the Banlieues
  25. Chapter 19: LGBTQ+ Poetry - Queer Voices and Identities
  26. Chapter 20: Digital Poetry - New Media, New Forms
  27. Chapter 21: Environmental Poetry - Eco-Consciousness and Climate Change
  28. Chapter 22: Global French - Poetry in the Digital Age