Research Catalog

Title

Léopold Sédar Senghor : from politics to poetry / William Kluback.

Author

Kluback, William.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c1997.

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Details

Description

xi, 117 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

William Kluback has put together a book of imagined conversations based on the poetical and philosophical ideas of Leopold Sedar Senghor, president of Senegal (1960-1980). A poet and statesman, Senghor believes in the moral evolution of humanity and embodies a universalism rare in a world of nationalism and power politics.

Subject

• Senghor, Léopold Sédar, 1906-2001 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-2000

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The Conversation -- 2. The Embrace of Poetry and Science -- 3. Priest, Poet, Scientist: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 4. The Gathering of Poets -- 5. Poetic Companions: Claudel and Senghor -- 6. A Beautiful Picture: The Embrace of Senghor, Chagall, and Bachelard -- 7. Senghor Discovers Spiritual Companionship in Personalism -- 8. Senghor Encounters Jacques Maritain.

ISBN

0820434884 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96045380^

OCLC

• 35796476
• SCSB-11228086

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library