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The Mystery of the Holy Innocents and Other Poems

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"CHARLES PEGUY is the only poet of consequence during the last fifty years in France whose work has failed to arouse the smallest critical interest in this country. Compared with Claudel or Valery, to mention two of his contemporaries, he has simply fallen flat. It almost seems as though the term 'poetry' were out of place, or as though, and this is perhaps nearer the truth, the conception of poetry his work implied placed it outside the pale of contemporary criticism. There seems to be nothing for criticism to get its teeth into. Everything is plain sailing. There is no shell to crack, no secret to explore, no difficulty of language, no impenetrable thought, no interplay of images to be unraveled. In whatever direction the critic looks, whether at the technique, the ideas, the images of the psychological sphere, there is nothing to be done, or at any rate nothing worth doing." --From the Introduction

168 pages, Paperback

Published February 28, 2018

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Charles Péguy

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Charles Pierre Péguy (Orléans, 7 janvier 1873 ; Villeroy, 5 septembre 1914) est un écrivain, poète et essayiste français. Il est également connu sous les noms de plume de Pierre Deloire et Pierre Baudouin1.

Son œuvre, multiple, comprend des pièces de théâtre en vers libres, comme Le Porche du Mystère de la deuxième vertu (1912), et des recueils poétiques en vers réguliers, comme La Tapisserie de Notre-Dame (1913), d'inspiration mystique, et évoquant notamment Jeanne d'Arc, un personnage historique auquel il reste toute sa vie profondément attaché. C'est aussi un intellectuel engagé : après avoir été militant socialiste libertaire2, anticlérical puis dreyfusard au cours de ses études, il se rapproche à partir de 1908 du catholicisme et du conservatisme3 ; il reste connu pour des essais où il exprime ses préoccupations sociales et son rejet de la modernité (L'Argent, 1913).

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