The French author Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) was the poet of the modern metropolis and was one of the first great French precursors of the symbolists. He has also been recognized as one of ...
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Charles Baudelaire is one of the most compelling poets of the nineteenth century. While Baudelaire's contemporary Victor Hugo is generally--and sometimes regretfully--acknowledged as the greatest of n...
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Below, Baudelaire describes his prose poems to Arsène Houssaye, editor of La Presse, who published twenty of his pieces in late 1862.
My dear friend, I send you a little work of which no one can...
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In the following essay, Hannoosh contends that the relationship depicted in La Fanfarlo between the characters and literature provides the key to understanding the novella.
Baudelaire's La Fanf...
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Kaplan is an American poet and critic. In the following excerpt, he finds that Le spleen de Paris addresses the conflict between "compassion and a fervent aestheticism. " According to Ka...
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Hubert is a German-born poet and educator specializing in contemporary art and literature. In the following essay, she examines the symbolic uses of light, darkness, and color in Petits poèmes en...
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In the following essay, Hubert finds that Baudelaire 's prose poems present true intimacy as virtually unattainable.
In his Poesie in prosaischer Welt, Fritz Nies claims that some typical Baude...
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In the following essay, Jeremy maintains that the protagonist of La Fanfarlo is a writer who lacks the intense focus and aesthetic vision of an artistic genius, and therefore represents Baudelaire�...
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Hiddleston is the author of Baudelaire and "Le spleen de Paris" (1987). In the following essay, he contends that Baudelaire's prose poems are poetical though they lack qualities t...
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Wright is an educator specializing in French literature. In the following essay on La Fanfarlo, she discusses the structure of the novella and assesses the relationship between the narrator and the st...
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In the following essay, Rubin suggests that in the prose poems "Le vieux saltimbanque" and "Une mort héroïque" Baudelaire defends the role of the artist and the p...
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Monroe is an American educator and critic. In the following excerpt, he maintains that economic and social concerns motivated Baudelaire's use of the prose poem.
Baudelaire and Women:
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In the following essay, Lyu discusses the tension in Baudelaire's Le Poème du haschisch between the poet's desire to pronounce a distinct separation of poetry and hashish and his ul...
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In the following essay, Wettlaufer contends that Le Poème du haschisch serves as an outline of Baudelaire's aesthetic philosophy as well as his statement about the tenuous benefits of drug...
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
