2
books, just published,
on modern poetry
LITERARY ORIGINS
OF SURREALISM
by Anna Balakian
$2.75
Here is first-hand information about certain
im–
portant poets of modern France - Lautreamont,
Rimbaud, Breton, Aragon, Eluard, among others.
It will interest all who consider poetry a signifi–
cant key to the psychology of an epoch, as well
as those who have perceived that surrealism is
something more than commercialized exhibition–
ism.
LA WALLONIE,
1886-1892
by Jackson Mathews
$2.25
The little reviews
were,
in a sense, the history of
French poetry from 1885 to 1900. This study
catches the Symbolist movement in progress, show–
ing what it was really like to found, edit, and sus–
tain one of the movement's most important out–
lets, Mockel's
La Wallonie,
a periodical, which
ended by giving its name to the French provinces
of Belgium.
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KING'S CROWN PRESS
at Columbia University, New York 27
