Although internationally renowned as a novelist, journalist, and essayist, Nobel Prize-winning author Francois Mauriac (1885-1970) never established a reputation as a poet. Yet it was Maurice Barres's favourable review of his first collection of verse, Les Mains jointes, that launched Mauriac's career in 1910. He went on to publish three further collections of poems and insisted to the end of his life that, despite critical neglect of his verse, he remained first and foremost a poet. This book offers the first ever in-depth exploration of the whole of Mauriac's verse output. After a chapter...