Sensibility and Creation

Roger Cardinal was an art scholar and Professor of Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is perhaps best known for his ground-breaking Outsider Art (1972), a book that introduced the English-speaking world to the concept of art brut.

• Introduction Roger Cardinal. 1. Valéry and the Image of the Tree-Top Christine M. Crow 2. Apollinaire’s Solar Imagery David Berry 3. Eyes and Seeing in the Poetry of Pierre Reverdy Michael Bishop 4. From the Labyrinth of Language to the Language of the Senses: the Poetry of André Breton Michael Sheringham 5. Jules Supervielle: a Poetry of Diffidence Graham Dunstan Martin 6. The World and the Word in Saint-John Perse Roger Little 7. Jean Follain: Objects in Time Pierre Calderon 8. Paul Eluard Malcolm Bowie 9. The Image of Night in René Char’s Poetry Nick Caistor 10. Francis Ponge Ian Higgins 11. Yves Bonnefoy: the Sense of Things John D. Price 12. Jacques Dupin Roger Cardinal