title: Second Simplicity: New Poetry and Prose, 1991-2011 (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) (English and French Edition)
author:  Yves Bonnefoy 
description: <DIV>&#8220;Mr. Bonnefoy [is] often lauded, and rightly so, as France's greatest living poet.&#8221;&#8212;Micah Mattix, <I>Wall Street Journal</I></DIV><BR /><DIV>&#8220;<I>Second Simplicity&nbsp;</I>. . . reveal[s] Bonnefoy&#8217;s remarkable inventiveness and desire to accommodate whatever form of address is called for, whether in verse or prose.&#8221;&#8212;Ron Slate,&nbsp;<I>On the Seawall</I></DIV><BR /><DIV>&#8220;[A] handsome edition of Bonnefoy&#8217;s recent work . . . a stunning presentation of a major poet.&#8221;&#8212;Jim Kates, <I>Arts Fuse</I></DIV><BR />"As the foreword to his lucid and responsible translations of Yves Bonnefoy's late work reveals, Hoyt Rogers has mastered the grand cumulus of ulterior translation, criticism, commentary, and biographical circumstance which so formidably confronts, and possibly daunts, the interpreter as well as the common reader, so that indeed <I>Second Simplicity</i> is for seasoned practitioners of this master not only a sort of precocious capstone of the still-rising edifice of the Great Work, but for newcomers to Bonnefoy an excellent, even an ideal, entrance to this writers vast creation."Richard Howard <DIV> </div><BR /><DIV><P> "Yves Bonnefoy is one of the rare poets in the history of literature to have sustained the highest level of artistic excellence throughout an entire lifetimenow more than half a century of work, and still counting. These recent poems, superbly translated by Hoyt Rogers, attest to his enduring greatness."Paul Auster
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  # Immortals Crowned by the French Academy: Monsieur de Camors, v1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Octave Feuillet
  
  
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  PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK 1.
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I. "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH"
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. FRUIT FROM THE HOTBED OF PARIS
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. DEBRIS FROM THE REVOLUTION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. A NEW ACTRESS IN A NOVEL ROLE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. THE COUNT LOSES A LADY AND FINDS A
  
  
  MISSION
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. THE OLD DOMAIN OF REUILLY
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. ELISE DE TECLE
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VIII. A DISH OF POLITICS
  
  
  
      
  
  
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