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'a well-informed, thorough, sensitive and excellently organized book on Laforgue's poetry as a whole ... Reading the Rhythm contains a range of treasures for the anglophone reader of modern French verse' Times Literary Supplement 'Detailed and subtle rhythmic analyses of poems from Éloges, Prose du Transsibérien, Gravitations, Sources du vent, Calligrammes, Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques and Documentaires. The first four of these in particular receive truly ground-breaking readings ... tutors will find it a revelation and a liberation, from which their students can only benefit as much as they do.' Forum for Modern Language Studies 'These poets aimed to create new attitudes to the syllable as metrical element; after reading this book, it is impossible not to apply those attitudes in one's reading. Most undergraduates would find the sometimes wordy lapidariness of the book hard going, but their tutors will find it a revelation and a liberation, from which their students can only benefit as much as they do.' FMLS Vol 8 '94 `the poetry specialist interested in free verse or in any of the poets studied will likely to find it to be thought-provoking and rewarding' Charles D. Minahen, Ohio State University, The French Review, Vol.70, No.3, February 1997