Most people consider George Eliot a great Victorian novelist but neglect her role as a poetess. In fact, it is essential to read her poetry as well in order to grasp her thoughts. Her poems come mostly from her personal feelings, her observation of society, and her love of nature. This present thesis is a study of her poems and poetics, her poetic creativity, and her achievement in writing poetry. In the thesis, the introductory chapter has an overall look on George Eliot¡¦s poetic career. Chapter One examines her creative progress of composing poetry and her poetics. Chapter Two discusses her poetic experiment on dramatic poems in her times. The final chapter probes into the poetic mottoes applied to her last three novels. Most important of all, this thesis discovers George Eliot¡¦s identification as a poetess because she is conscious of what poetry offers and stimulates. This thesis, therefore, intends to show a new dimension of George Eliot as a poetess.

L'étude de l'œuvre de Patrick Kermann permet de dresser les contours d'un théâtre où la parole des morts met en péril la mimésis et devient un véritable pari sur l'absence. Les différentes voix donnent une présence aux disparus, constituant la charpente du drame à travers un matériau sonore très dense, discontinu et hétérogène. La composition rythmique ouvre sur une polyphonie de voix qui génère un appel désespéré des morts n'ayant pas trouvé de place parmi les vivants. Une première partie traite de la dramaturgie de l'après où les disparus reviennent pour dire leur désastre intime et la barbarie du monde. Une deuxième partie déplace l'analyse sous l'angle de la dramaturgie sonore et examine comment la partition textuelle fait résonner la langue privilégiant une réception auditive qui n'est pas sans mettre en question la position du lecteur et, plus encore peut-être, celle du spectateur. Ainsi, ces voix abandonnées rencontrent-elles des metteurs en scène qui les accueillent en leur proposant des espaces singuliers faits pour répondre au trouble que crée l'écoute des corps absents. / The study of Patrick Kermann's work makes it possible to draw up the contours of a drama in which the words of the dead endanger the mimesis and become a real wager on absence. The different voices give presence to the departed, forming the framework of the drama through very condensed, intermittent and heterogeneous sound material. The rhythmic composition opens up on a polyphony of voices which produces a desperate appeal from the dead who have found no place among the living. A first part deals with the dramatic effects of what follows, when those who disappeared come back to relate their intimate disaster and the barbarity of the world. A second part moves the analysis to the angle of sonorous dramatic art and examines the way in which the textual score causes the language to resound, privileging auditory reception, which is not without questioning the reader's position and, perhaps, even more, that of the spectator. Thus it is that these abandoned voices meet producers who greet them with offers of unexpected areas intended to be an answer to the confusion resulting from listening to absent bodies.