The Flame of a Candle

Synopsis

"this book further-cements his thematic contention that the imagination is a flame, the flame of the psyche. " - joanne stroud. Chapters include "poetic images of the flame in plant life, " ''the solitude of the candle dreamer, " and "the light of the lamp. " the bachelard translations are the inspiration of joanne h. Stroud, director of publications for the dallas institute of humanities and culture, who in 1981 contracted with josé corti to publish in english the untranslated works of bachelard on the imagination.