Yves Jean Bonnefoy was a French poet and art historian. He also published a number of translations, most notably the plays of William Shakespeare which are considered among the best in French. He was a professor at the Collège de France from 1981 to 1993 and is the author of several works on art, art history, and artists including Miró and Giacometti, and a monograph on Paris-based Iranian artist Farhad Ostovani. The Encyclopædia Britannica states that Bonnefoy was ″perhaps the most important French poet of the latter half of the 20th century.″Wikipedia →
Works
Du mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
On the Motion and Immobility of Douve
French · 1953Poetry Collection
1 translation
Poèmes (1947–1975)
Poems (1947-1975)
French · 1978Poetry Collection
1 translation
Dictionnaire des mythologies et des religions des sociétés traditionnelles et du monde antique (en 2 volumes)
Dictionary of Mythologies and Religions of Traditional Societies and the Ancient World (in 2 volumes)
French · 1981Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
1 translation
Là où retombe la flèche
Where the Arrow Falls
French · 1986Poetry Collection
1 translation
Ce qui fut sans lumi
That Which Was Without Light
French · 1987Poetry Collection
1 translation
La Vie errante
The Wandering Life
French · 1993Poetry Collection
1 translation
Début et fin de la neige
Beginning and End of the Snow
French · 1995Poetry Collection
1 translation
Dessin, couleur et lumière
Drawing, Color and Light
French · 1995Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
1 translation
Théâtre et poésie: Shakespeare et Yeats
Theatre and Poetry: Shakespeare and Yeats
French · 1998Nonfiction / Essays / Treatise
1 translation
Les Planches courbes
The Curved Planks
French · 2001Poetry Collection
2 translations
Dans un débris de miroir
In a Shard of Mirror
French · 2006Biography / Memoir / Reportage
1 translation
La Longue Chaîne de l'ancre
The Anchor's Long Chain
French · 2008Poetry Collection
2 translations
Raturer outre
Crossing Out and In
French · 2010Poetry Collection
1 translation
L'Heure présente
The Present Hour
French · 2011Poetry Collection
2 translations
Le Digamma
The Digamma
French · 2012Poetry Collection
1 translation
Ensemble encore
Together Still
French · 2016Poetry Collection
1 translation