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Selected Poems (Penguin Classics) Book

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as 'La Chambre Double' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal, show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.Read More

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  • Penguin

    'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles' The poems of Charles Baudelaire, collected as Les Fleurs du Mal, are filled with unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity subjects dismissed as unpoetic by French literary conventions of the time.

  • Blackwell

    Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) has proved to be the most influential of French nineteenth-century poets for the way in which his writing combines strong emotion, acute aesthetic sensibility and formal perfection with the everyday settings and...

  • Pickabook

    Charles Baudelaire, Carol Clark (Editor), Carol Clark (Trans)

  • 0140446249
  • 9780140446241
  • Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
  • 25 March 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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