| Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal Contributor(s): Leakey, F. W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521369371 ISBN-13: 9780521369374 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $37.04 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1992 Annotation: This textbook series is ambitious in scope. It provides concise and lucid introductions to major works of world literature from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 91019653 |
| Series: Landmarks of World Literature (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 5.01" W x 7.73" (0.34 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its landmark status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial condemnation on its first publication in 1857. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du Mal, offering new insights into its composition, themes and style, setting it in its historical context, and devoting a whole chapter to Baudelaire's crowning achievement, Le Cygne. |