Baudelaire
Author | : F. W. Leakey |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1990-05-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521323355 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521323352 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: This book of linked essays contains the first critical study of Baudelaire's development as a poet, from his youth onward. It also includes studies of the development of Baudelaire's aesthetic, detailed commentaries on a number of his finest poems, and accounts of three intriguing and crucial "encounters" with notable contemporaries. Three of the essays are previously unpublished and four very recent; the other eleven have been thoroughly updated, revised, and, in some cases, substantially expanded. Together, they constitute a new and important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of Baudelaire's work.