Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
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By Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire is a collection capturing the essence of his complex emotions and themes, ranging from beauty and decadence to horror and despair. The poems delve into Baudelaire's existential reflections, exploring the duality of human nature and the conflict between the ideal and the mundane. This volume serves as an insightful window into the mind of one of the most influential poets of the 19th century, marked by its vivid imagery and innovative use of language.
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You might enjoy this collection if you appreciate evocative and rich imagery mixed with themes of beauty, decadence, and modernity. Baudelaire's work often delves into the complexities of the human experience and emotions, appealing to those who have an interest in exploring the depths of artistic and cultural expression.

Selected Poems

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. This title intends to show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

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A selection of Baudelaire's explicit and unsettling poems

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity everyday 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.

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Selected Poems by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire is highly praised for its evocative and sensual use of language, capturing the essence of modernity and decadence. Critics appreciate its exploration of beauty, melancholy, and the complexities of human nature, often described as both visionary and haunting. The collection is seen as a significant contribution to the Arts & Culture genre, showcasing Baudelaire's skill in blending Romanticism with Symbolist tendencies.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780140446241

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 August 1995

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 202g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821. He travelled to the Indian Ocean but returned prematurely and never again travelled far from Paris, until his journey to Belgium the year before his death, where he suffered a stroke. He lived a bohemian lifestyle, writing, publishing and lecturing to raise money for his rather lavish tastes. His collection of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) was prosecuted for indecency. Carol Clark is a Fellow and Tutor in French at Balliol College, Oxford.