Rencontres avec la poésie: un guide pratique pour la lecture et l'analyse du poème is intended as an introduction to the world of French poetry — too often considered mysterious and inaccessible. This is a guide that helps students to practice reading and analyzing poetry, and strives to meet the needs of both the student and the literature professor. This manual explains, in a clear and concise manner, the essential elements of versification: meter, rhymes, rhythms, tropes and figure rhetoric, and sonorous games. This is a guide that encourages new understanding of poetry while offering practical exercises that accompany every chapter. The examples in the book are pulled from France, Quebec, and other French-speaking nations. Methods, practice, and models follow the poems and facilitate the first step to understanding French poetry for students.

Catherine M. Grisé est professeur de littérature française à l'université de Toronto. Auteur de nombreux articles sur la poésie du XVIIe siècle, ses livres les plus récents sont Cognitive Space and Structures of Deceit in the Contes of La Fontaine (1998) et Le Conte en vers gaillard: de Jean La Fontaine à Guillaume Apollinaire (2000).

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