Lyric and Dramatic Poetry, 1946-82

by Aimé Césaire, Annette Smith, Clayton Eshleman

Book Overview

Aime Cesaire has been described by the Times Literary Supplement as likely to "figure alongside the Eliot-Pound-Yeats triumvirate that has dominated official poetic culture for more than fifty years." He was a cofounder and exponent of the concept of negritude and is a major spiritual, political, and literary figure.Cesaire has been read politically as a poet of revolutionary zeal since the 1960s. This collection, the only one in existence in any...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081391244X
• ISBN13: 9780813912448
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"