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The poems and prose poems of Charles Baudelaire
- Title
- The poems and prose poems of Charles Baudelaire / with an introductory preface by James Huneker.
- Author
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
- Publication
- New York : Brentano's, 1919.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Huneker, James, 1857-1921.
- Description
- lvii, 134 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connect it more closely to the work of the contemporary 'Parnassians'. As for theme and tone, in his works we see the rejection of the belief in the supremacy of nature and the fundamental goodness of man as typically espoused by the romantics and expressed by them in rhetorical, effusive and public voice in favor of a new urban sensibility, an awareness of individual moral complexity, an interest in vice (linked with decadence) and refined sensual and aesthetical pleasures, and the use of urban subject matter, such as the city, the crowd, individual passers-by, all expressed in highly ordered verse, sometimes through a cynical and ironic voice. Formally, the use of sound to create atmosphere, and of 'symbols', (images which take on an expanded function within the poem), betray a move towards considering the poem as a self-referential object, an idea further developed by the Symbolists Verlaine and Mallarmé, who acknowledge Baudelaire as a pioneer in this regard.
- Subject
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in digital form on the Internet Archive Web site.
- LCCN
- 19009850
- OCLC
- ocm01889177
- 1889177
- SCSB-2409352
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries