An introduction to the French poets, Villon to the present day. - Brereton, Geoffrey (London Methuen, 1956)
François Villon -- Pierre de Ronsard -- Joachim Du Bellay -- Other sixteenth-century poets -- Franćois Malherbe: the baroque and the classic -- Irregular seventeenth-century poets -- Jean Racine -- Jean de la Fontaine -- André Chénier -- Alphonse de Lamartine -- Alfred de Vigny -- Victor Hugo -- Alfred de Musset -- Charles Baudelaire -- Leconte de Liśle and Heredia -- Paul Verlaine -- Arthur Rimbaud -- Stéphane Mallarmé -- Other nineteenth-century poets -- Claudel and Apollinaire -- Paul Valéry -- The impact of surrealism -- Some other modern poets.
Keywords: French poetry -- History and criticism; Poets, French