I was not much taken by their poems, but I liked Leconte de Lisle’s translation of Homer, especially his Iliad, which brought me the classical world. I have often felt a great difference between myself and the next generation, those who were twenty in 1950, although it is only a few years, because I had read in my grandfather’s library books that were later less accessible. The next generation was reading Michaux, Prévert, Éluard—twentieth-century authors. I’m glad to have read the Greek classics, and French ones too—writers like Racine and Corneille.
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Yves Bonnefoy
Poet, essayist and translator
France · 1923–2016
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French poet and critic, and the principal modern French translator of Shakespeare. He held the chair of comparative poetics at the Collège de France from 1981. His collections include Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve and Pierre écrite.
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