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One of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an important art critic and translator. In fact, his translations of Edgar Allan Poe's works are considered classics of French prose. Throughout much of his life, however, Baudelaire was dismissed as a vulgar drug addict preoccupied with sex and death. Prosecuted for obscenity and reeling from one financial disaster to another, he produced a number of literary works that went unrecognised during his lifetime. Perhaps the most significant collection of poetry published in Europe during the nineteenth century, his Flowers of Evil was critically condemned, and the remaining years of his life were marked by a sense of failure, disillusionment, and despair.This volume of the poet's essays and drawings - collected and published after his death - includes cryptic memoranda, literary notes, quotations, rough drafts of prose poems, and personal tirades. More than anything else, they reveal the spiritual underpinnings of his work, transcending the squalor of financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy.
Release date NZ
June 16th, 2006
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Introduction by W.H. Auden
  • Translated by Christopher Isherwood
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
Pages
128
Dimensions
141x219x9
ISBN-13
9780486447780
Product ID
2732875

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