Resumen de Métamorphoses du verbe. Dífférenclotions poétiques dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
Poetry's self-consciousness is nowhere so manifest as in 19th century France- but it takes on a dialogical form with the most important authors, as Nerval's Vers dorés, Baudelaire's Correspondances, Rimbaud's Voyelles and Mallarmé 's sonnet in -yx, where the fixed form of the sonnet is dynamised by a reflection on the very limits of verbal power, demonstrate.
