Nineteenth-century French poetry : introductions to close reading / edited by Christopher Prendergast.

The poem as hypothesis of origin : Lamartine's 'Le lac' / Eric Gans
The rhetoric of contemplation : Hugo's 'La pente de la rêverie' / Victor Brombert
The designs of prosody : Vigny's 'La mort du loup' / Clive Scott
The lyric persona : Nerval's "El desdichado" / Rae Beth Gordon
Under-reading at noon : Leconte de Lisle's 'Midi' / Mary Ann Caws
Intertextuality and interpretation : Baudelaire's 'Correspondances' / Jonathan Cutler
Questions of metaphor : Gautier's 'La nue' / Christopher Prendergast
Training for modernity : Verlain's 'Le paysage dans le cadre des portières ...' / Ross Chambers
Sylleptic symbols : Rimbaud's 'Memoire' / Michael Riffaterre
Poetry and cliché : Laforgue's 'L'hiver qui vient' / Peter Collier
Genius at nightfall : Mallarmé's 'Quand l'ombre menaça de la fatale loi ...' / Malcolm Bowie.