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Abstract

This is one of the most common places in literary history: in the age of modernity, poetry was found to be in line with the book, contained in a crafted volume and intended for a few happy few. At the end of the 19th century, the Mallarmeen myth enshrined the alliance of Book and Poème, purifying the poetry of everything that still linked it to the mainstream of social life. But nothing is more false. Since the French Revolution, poetry, in all its forms, has invaded public space: a poetry mobilised by revolutions as well as by official powers, a poetry decomposed or singing at the corner of the streets, slipped into the columns of newspapers, written on walls, recited on the radio, interpreted on stage or for the disc industry, film or television images, recall, slamée, and now benefiting from the infinite plasticity of digital technology. This is not a marginal output to which justice should be made by compassionate. This proteiform poetry is not only quantitatively much more important than book poetry; and why would it be worse, just because it would realise the romantic dream of a poetry specifically addressed to all? But it is more than ever ubiquitous, concealed at the heart of a culture that was supposed to be dedicated to slorytelling and fiction of all kinds. It is therefore to a radically new history of modern poetry that this first collective sum on poetry outside the book, “delivered”, is designed and written by about 30 specialists in history, literature, philosophy, musicology, art history, information and communication sciences, sociology.

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