Abstract
John Naughton, who launched his career as interpreter of modern French poetry with a book on Yves Bonnefoy (1984), develops in his title and final chapter a moving and substantial analysis of Bonnefoy as the exemplar of a new (atheistic or agnostic) modern faith in five major poets-and he accomplishes this essentially ethical intent with meticulous textual analyses. According to Naughton, this often grim vision displays "une résolution morale et un engagement inébranlable envers l'autre" (147).