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"French Lyrics" by Arthur Graves Canfield is a collection of selected and edited French lyric poetry, first published in the late 19th century. The volume is aimed at providing English-speaking readers with an accessible introduction to the intricacies of French lyricism, highlighting the distinct qualities that set it apart from English poetry. Through this anthology, the editor seeks to encourage a deeper appreciation for the beauty and charm inherent in French lyric poetry. The opening portion of the collection includes a preface and an introduction outlining the book's intent and context. Canfield discusses the general underappreciation of French lyrics among English speakers and delineates the historical evolution of lyric poetry in France, beginning with the Troubadours in the 12th century. He emphasizes the transition of lyrical expression through different eras, highlighting various influential poets such as Villon and Ronsard, and describes key transformations in themes, form

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This book is intended as an introduction to the reading and study of
French lyric poetry. If it contributes toward making that poetry more
widely known and more justly appreciated its purpose will have been
fulfilled.

It is rather usual among English-speaking people to think slightingly
of the poetry of France, especially of her lyrics. This is not
unnatural. The qualities that give French verse its distinction are
very different from those that make the strength and the charm of our
English lyrics. But we must guard ourselves against the conclusion
that because a work is unlike those that we are accustomed to admire
it is necessarily bad. There are many kinds of excellence. And this
little book must have been poorly put together indeed if it fail to
suggest to the reader that France possesses a wealth of lyric
verse which, whatever be its shortcomings in those qualities that
characterize our English lyrics, has others quite its own, both of
form and of spirit, that give it a high and serious interest and no
small measure of beauty and charm.

The editor has sought to keep the purpose of the volume constantly in
view in preparing the introduction and notes. He has hoped to supply
such information as would be most helpful, if not indispensable, to
the reader. And as he has thought that the best service the book could
render would be to stimulate interest in French poetry and to persuade
to a wider reading of it, he has wished in the bibliography to meet
especially the wants of those who may be inclined to pursue further
one or another of the acquaintances here begun. It is of course not
intended to be in any wise exhaustive, but only to present the sum of
an author's lyrical work, to indicate current and available editions,
and to point out sources of further informatio

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