Le poème en prose au 19e siècle/ The Prose Poem in the 19th Century

3 credits · Graduate

The prose poem is a literary genre that attained pre-eminence in the 19th century due in large measure to a reaction among writers against traditional poetics. The rise of the prose poem coincides with an attempt to find a “new language” that would express the spirit of modernism. Works studies will include Bertrand’s Gaspard de la Nuit, Baudelaire’s Petits Poèmes en prose and Rimbaud’s Illuminations.