Robert W. Greene, professor emeritus of French, University at Albany, State University of New York, is the author of The Poetic Theory of Pierre Reverdy (University of California Press, 1967), Six French Poets of Our Time (Princeton University Press, 1979) and Just Words: Moralism and Metalanguage in Twentieth-Century French Fiction (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993), and the editor of Dalhousie French Studies, 21 (Fall-Winter 1991), devoted to "Art Criticism by French Poets Since World War II".