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Article: Shaw, Mary Lewis. The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry.(Book Review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
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- March 22, 2005
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Shaw, Mary Lewis. The Cambridge Introduction to French Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Pp. 226. ISBN 0-5210-0485-3
This is a pedagogically wide-ranging and highly practical book. It provides readers with indispensable socio-historical, stylistic and rhetorical terms as well as assorted bits of useful information about a dazzling array of French poets, schools and movements from the Middle Ages to the present. The precise, compact glossary of terms alone will answer many a teacher's prayer for just such an aide-memoire, since it includes definitions of many items beyond basic notions like rhyme schemes and meter; namely, tropes and figures, such as ...