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CRITICISM

Bishop, Michael. “An Infinity of Flashing Briefness: The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy.” Neophilologus 70, no. 2 (April 1986): 194-207.

Articulates the principal features of Bonnefoy's poetics through an examination of his verse.

———. “Image, Justesse, and Love: Breton, Reverdy, and Bonnefoy.” Symposium 42, no. 3 (fall 1988): 187-97.

Examines questions of love, being, and consciousness in the work of Andre Breton, Pierre Reverdy, and Yves Bonnefoy.

Bonnefoy, Yves. “Lifting Our Eyes from the Page.” Critical Inquiry 16, no. 4 (summer 1990): 794-806.

Bonnefoy addresses the reading of poetry.

Caws, Mary Ann. Yves Bonnefoy. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1984, 114 p.

Biographical and critical study.

Giskin, Howard. “Yves Bonnefoy's Conception of Poetry in Pierre écrite.Tropos 13, no. 1 (spring 1986): 23-35.

Contends that Bonnefoy viewed his poetry in Pierre écrite as the highest expression of reality.

Hochman, Hugh. “Yves Bonnefoy's Materialist Words.” Dalhousie French Studies 60 (fall 2002): 94-100.

Examines Bonnefoy's verse in light of the classical materialism of Epicurus and Lucretius.

Lawall, Sarah N., and Mary Ann Caws. “A Style of Silence: Two Readings of Yves Bonnefoy's Poetry.” Contemporary Literature 16, no. 2 (spring 1975): 193-217.

Provides two readings on the theme of silence in Bonnefoy's poetry.

Lawall, Sarah. “Bonnefoy's Pierre écrite: Progressive Ambiguity as the Many in the One.” In The Ladder of High Designs: Structure and Interpretation of the French Lyric Sequence, edited by Doranne Fenoaltea and David Lee Rubin, pp. 172-98. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991.

Maintains that Pierre écrite “sets into play two complementary notions of unity: a formal unity that is demonstrated only to be denied, and the vision of a proximate One whose definition accumulates substance but not fixity throughout an expanding series of associations.”

Maurin, Mario. “On Bonnefoy's Poetry.” Yale French Studies, no. 21 (1958): 16-22.

Evaluates On the Motion and Immobility of Douve within the French poetic tradition.

McAllister, James. “The Image and the Furrow: Yves Bonnefoy, Claude Garache.” Symposium 45, no. 2 (summer 1991): 97-108.

Investigates affinities between On the Motion and Immobility of Douve and the painted images of Claude Garache.

———. “Yves Bonnefoy and John Constable: ‘La tâche terrestre, délivrée.’” Romance Notes 32, no. 3 (spring 1992): 281-89.

Considers the relationship between John Constable's series of sketches entitled Dedham from Langham and Bonnefoy's poem of the same name.

Naughton, John T. The Poetics of Yves Bonnefoy, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984, 209 p.

Full-length study of Bonnefoy's verse and poetic theory.

———, ed. Yves Bonnefoy: The Act and the Place of Poetry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989, 172 p.

Collection of critical essays.

Noland, Carrie Jaurés. “Yves Bonnefoy and Julia Kristeva: The Poetics of Motherhood.” Poetry and Poetics 18 (1991): 134-44.

Asserts that Bonnefoy and Julia Kristeva frequently refer to the maternal figure in their poetic theories.

Petterson, James. “Yves Bonnefoy and the Absence of Myth.” In Postwar Figures of L'Ephémère: Yves Bonnefoy, Louis-René des Forêts, Jacques Dupin, André du Bouchet, pp. 21-62. Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 2000.

Elucidates the role of mythology in Bonnefoy's verse.

Prothin, Annie. “The Substantive Language of Yves Bonnefoy.” Sub-Stance, no. 20 (1978): 45-58.

Illustrates “how Bonnefoy's poetry incorporates into the text, by means of grammatical categories and a particular lexicon, an original poetics which is deeply embedded in his poetry.”

Stamelman, Richard. “Landscape and Loss in Yves Bonnefoy and Philippe Jaccottet.” French Forum 5, no. 1 (January 1980): 30-47.

Demonstrates “how the experience of loss and of death is supported and confirmed by the poet's experience of landscape” in the verse of Bonnefoy and Philippe Jaccottet.

———. “The ‘Presence’ of Memory.” L'Esprit Créateur 36, no. 3 (fall 1996): 65-79.

Investigates the role of memory in Bonnefoy's work.

Vernier, Richard. “Yves Bonnefoy and the Conscience of Poetry.” Sub-Stance, nos. 23-24 (1979): 149-56.

Surveys the defining characteristics of Bonnefoy's poetry.

———. “From Critical to Poetic Discourse: Bonnefoy and Poussin.” L'Esprit Créateur 22, no. 4 (winter 1982): 37-46.

Analyzes Bonnefoy's theory of the relationship between painted and poetic images.

Winspur, Steven. “Yves Bonnefoy's Three Strikes against the Sign.” Romanic Review 77, no. 2 (March 1986): 155-65.

Explicates Bonnefoy's theory of language and assesses its consequences for his poetry.

Additional coverage of Bonnefoy's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 85-88; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 33, 75, 97; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 9, 15, 58; Contemporary World Writers, Ed. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 258; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-studied Authors and Poets; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; and Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2.

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