| Intimate Journals Contributor(s): Baudelaire, Charles (Author), Isherwood, Christopher (Translator), Auden, W. H. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0486447782 ISBN-13: 9780486447780 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $8.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Dismissed as a vulgar drug addict who wrote about sex and death, Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) went largely unrecognized until the 20th century. This collection of the notorious poet's essays transcends the squalor of his financial ruin and the torture of physical decline to offer compelling thoughts on his world, society, and philosophy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006040012 |
| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 5.54" W x 8.62" (0.41 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 unrecognized 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. |