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Knowing the East: »

Authors: Paul Claudel, James R. Lawler
ISBN-13: 9780691119021, ISBN-10: 0691119023
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul Claudel

Paul Claudel (1868-1955) was the author of numerous plays including Le Pain dur and Le Soulier de satin, and several volumes of poetry, the most famous of which is Five Great Odes. James Lawler is a translator and scholar of modern French poetry, especially that of the Symbolists. Most recently he wrote "Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's "Secret Architecture"."

Book Synopsis

"I currently know of no individual work of French literature that has been proposed of such splendor, such importance, and such (scholarly) authority. This is a permanent gem."--Richard Howard, Columbia University

	The coconut palm	3
	Pagoda	5
	The city at night	9
	Gardens	12
	The feast of the dead in the seventh month	15
	Sea thoughts	17
	Cities	18
	Theater	19
	Graves - noises	21
	The entrance to the earth	24
	Religion of the sign	26
	The banyan	29
	Toward the mountain	30
	The upper sea	32
	The temple of consciousness	33
	October	34
	November	35
	Painting	37
	The contemplative	38
	December	39
	Storm	40
	The pig	41
	Drifting	42
	Doors	44
	The river	46
	Rain	48
	Night on the verandah	49
	The moon's splendor	50
	Dreams	51
	Heat	53
	Considering the city	54
	Going down the river	55
	The bell	56
	The tomb	58
	The sadness of water	61
	Sailing by night	62
	Halt on the canal	63
	The pine tree	66
	The golden ark in the forest	69
	The wanderer	72
	Here and there	74
	The sedentary	80
	The land viewed from the sea	82
	Salutation	83
	The suspended house	85
	The spring	86
	Noon tide	88
	Peril of the sea	90
	A proposition on light	92
	Hours in the garden	94
	Concerning the brain	97
	Leaving the land	99
	The lamp and the bell	103
	The deliverance of Amaterasu	105
	Visit	110
	Rice	111
	The full stop	112
	Libation to the coming day	113
	The day of the feast-of-all-rivers	114
	The yellow hour	116
	Dissolution	117

Subjects

Poetry

French Poetry

French poetry -> 20th century
Fiction Books & Literature