Preface; General critical and historical introduction: The Road from Paris;
1. Flint, the Haiku, and the Symbolists: Recent Verse F. S. Flint; 2.
Bergson and the avant garde: art and philosophy John Middleton Murray; 3.
Bergson and the theory of modern French poetry: review of the De Visan's
L'Attitude du Lyrisme contemporain T. E. Hulme; 4. Correspondence with Les
Jeunes: thirteen letters on French poetry in 1912; 5. The first major
survey of the French avant garde: contemporary French poetry F. S. Flint;
6. A French account of the French contemporaries: Lettre de France, II-V;
7. The move toward classicism: French books - a classical revival John
Middleton Murray; 8. Modern French poetry: Pound's first important view:
The Approach to Paris, I-VII Ezra Pound; 9. A quarterly report on French
poetry 1913-1914: French Chronicle I-VIII F. S. Flint; 10. Aldington on de
Gourmont: Remy de Gourmont's Le Latin Mystique Richard Aldington; 11. New
French poetry in 1914: some recent French poems Richard Aldington; 12. De
Gourmont and the concept of tradition: tradition and other things Remy de
Gourmont; 13. Nicolas Beauduin and a French correlative to futurism: the
new poetry of France Nicolas Beauduin; 14. Lautreamont, via Gourmont and
Aldington: Lautreamont Remy de Gourmont; 15. Aldington on a French
satirist: Laurent Tailhade Richard Aldington; 16. Imagism and French
poetry: the history of imagism F. S. Flint; 17. Early recognition of a new
symbolist: Paul Valery's La Jeune Parque John Middleton Murray; 18. A
continuing trend toward classicism: art and tradition Aldous Huxley; 19.
Modern poetry and modern painting: cubism and the modern artistic
sensibility Andre Lhote; 20. A selective view of a new generation, 1920:
young French verse Aldous Huxley; Appendix; Index.
