WALLACE FOWLIE

Wallace Fowlie was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in
1908. Educated at Harvard, he completed his doctoral
dissertation on the French religious thinker Ernest Psichari.
A frequent visitor to France and a widely acknowledged
authority on French literature, Mr. Fowlie has taught
at Harvard, Yale, the University of Chicago, and, at
present, at Bennington College. He is the author of many
works of criticism, among them MALLARMÉ, DE VILLON
À PÉGUY, CLOWNS AND ANGELS, RIMBAUD, and a parallel
to the present work, A GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY FRENCH
LITERATURE( Meridian Books, M48); a volume of auto-
biography, PANTOMIME; and the following translations:
SIXTY POEMS OF SCÈVE, MID-CENTURY FRENCH POETS,
JOURNALS OF JEAN COCTEAU, St.- John Perse's SEAMARKS,
and Claudel's A POET BEFORE THE CROSS.

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A MERIDIAN BOOKS ORIGINAL

Published by Meridian Books, Inc. April 1960

First printing March 1960

Copyright © 1960 by Wallace Fowlie

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-6740

Manufactured In the United States of America

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