Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. I. Origins and Birth 1
6. II. L'Education Foraine: The Eighteenth Century 35
7. III. Gilles and Clown 66
8. IV. Romantic Adolescence: The Nineteenth Century 93
9. V. Pierrot Fumiste: Jules Laforgue 139
10. VI. Pierrot Ephèbe: T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens 156
11. Bibliography of Principal Works Consulted 195
12. Index 209