Author of some fifteen volumes of prose and verse. PIERRE EMMANUELis in charge of the English-language broadcasts of the French government radio station, Radiodiffusion Française. Before the war he taught mathematics and philosophy at a Breach lycée. “In 1948,” he tells us, “a lecture tour carried me through a number of universities and colleges in the East and in the Middle West; beginning in 1951 I had the pleasure of teaching yearly at the Harvard Summer School. These brief incursions into academic life in America in no way entitle me to pass judgment on the educational system in the United States. In the following remarks T merely wish to underline certain aspects of my personal experience
PIERRE EMMANUEL,himself a poet and a critic, is particularly aware of the problems of the critic. Mr. Emmanuel, who was born in 1916, is the author of some fifteen volumes of prose and verse; he taught mathematics and philosophy at a French lyeée but stepped out of academic dress to take an active part in the Resistance movement. He is now in charge of the English-language broadcasts of the French government radio station, Radiodiffusion Francaise.
A conference of distinguished poets was held in Cambridge last summer in connection with the Harvard Summer School, and their discussion brought out these illuminating words of PIERRE EMMANUEL, the French poet and critic. Mr. Emmanuel, who was born in 1916, is the author of some fifteen volumes of prose and verse; he taught mathematics and philosophy at a French lycée but stepped out of academic dress to take an active part in the Resistance movement. He is now in charge of the English-language broadcasts of the French government radio station. Radio Diffusion Française.