by Yves Bonnefoy · University of Chicago Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780226064499
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This collection of essays by Yves Bonnefoy, edited by John T. Naughton, offers a coherent statement of poetic philosophy and intent. The essays, published over a nearly thirty-year span, respond to one another, taking up for renewed consideration ideas developed in earlier meditations, thereby providing integrity and completeness to the volume. Among the subjects addressed are the French poetic tradition, the art of translation, and the works of Shakespeare, of which Bonnefoy is the preeminent French translator.
Yves Jean Bonnefoy was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″
