In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.

Selected Poems Baudelaire

Literature & Fiction

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

Poetry

Penguin Classics

Aesthete and outcast, dandy and revolutionist, Charles Baudelaire emerges from his writing as the paradoxical aristocrat of his age. This is a selection of his writings on art and literature.

Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics)

Penguin??Books

This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. This book is intended for general readers interested in Baudelaire, French poetry and 19th-century French culture. Students of Baudelaire, French literature.

The Flowers of Evil (The World's Classics)

Oxford Univ Pr (T)

The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.

The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Twenty Prose Poems

Grossman Publishers/ Cape, Lon

The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Undeniably one of the modern world's greatest literary figures, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) left behind a correspondence documenting in intimate detail a life as intense in its extremes as his poetry. This extensive selection of his lettersâ€”many translated for the first time into Englishâ€”depicts a poet divided between despair and elation, thoughts of suicide and intimations of immortality; a man who could write to his mother, "We're obviously destined to love one another, to end our lives as honestly and gently as possible," and say in the next sentence, "I'm convinced that one of us will kill the other"; who courted and then suffered the controversy provoked by his masterpiece, Les Fleurs du mal; who struggled throughout his life with syphilis contracted in his youth, near-intolerable financial restrictions imposed by his stepfather, and conflicting feelings of failure and revolt dating from his school days. Writing to family, friends, and lovers, Baudelaire reveals the incidents and passions that went into his poetry. In letters to editors, idols, and peersâ€”Hugo, Flaubert, Vigny, Wagner, Cladel, among othersâ€”he elucidates the methods and concerns of his own art and criticism and comments tellingly on the arts and politics of his day. In all, ranging from childhood to days shortly before his death, these letters comprise a complex and moving portrait of the quintessential poet and his time.

Selected Letters of Charles Baudelaire: The Conquest of Solitude

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays

Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was a leading poet and novelist in nineteenth who also devoted a considerable amount of his time to criticism. Indeed it was with a Salon review that he made his literary debut: and it is significant that even at this early stage - in 1845 - he was already articulating the need for a painter who could depict the heroism of modern life. This he was to find in Constantin Guys, whom he later celebrated in the famous essay which provides the title-piece for this collection. Other material in this volume includes important and extended studies of three of Baudelaire's contemporary heroes - Delacroix, Poe and Wagner - and some more general articles, such as those on the theory and practice of caricature, and on what Baudelaire, with intentional scorn, called philosophic art. This last article develops views only touched on in Baudelaire's other writings. This volume is extensively illustrated with reproductions of works referred to in the text and otherwise relevant to it. It provides a survey of some of the most important ideas and individuals in the critical world of the great poet who has been called the father of modern art criticism.

The Painter Of Modern Life And Other Essays

Da Capo Press

Intimate Journals (Picador Books)

Biographies & Memoirs

Picador

The Mirror of Art: Critical Studies (Classic Reprint)

Arts & Photography

Painting

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