Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy was a French poet, essayist, art critic, and translator whose first major poetry collection, *Du mouvement et de l’immobilité de Douve*, appeared in 1953. He translated Shakespeare extensively, along with poets including Yeats, Keats, Leopardi, and Petrarch, while writing influential studies of poetry, art, and translation. From 1981 to 1993, he held the chair of Comparative Studies of the Poetic Function at the Collège de France.