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Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, "The Flowers of Evil": the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art and women. Published posthumously in 1869, "The Spleen of Paris" was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry - a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux and freedom of his age - and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #266880 in Books
• Published on: 1970-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 118 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780811200073
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Anywhere Out Of The World
Artist's Confiteor
The Bad Glazier
Beat Up The Poor
The Beautiful Dorothea
Beauty
Cake
The Clock
Comes The Charming Evening
Counterfeit
Crowds
The Desire To Paint
The Dog, And The Scent-bottle
The Double Room
Epilogue
Evening Twilight
The Eyes Of The Poor
The Fairies' Gifts
The Faithful Dog
The Gallant Marksman
The Generous Gambler
Get Drunk
A Hemisphere In Your Hair
Her Hair
A Heroic Death
Invitation To The Voyage
L'invitation Au Voyage
Loss Of A Halo
The Mirror
Miss Bistoury
The Moon's Favors
The Old Clown
The Old Woman's Despair
One O'clock In The Morning
The Poor Child's Toy
Portraits Of Some Mistresses
Projects
Questioning At Midnight
The Rope
Sea-ports
The Shooting Gallery And The Cemetery
Solitude
The Soup And The Clouds
The Stranger
The Temptations, Or Eros, Plutos And Fame
A Thorough-bred
The Thyrsus
To Every Man His Chimera
Venus And The Motley Fool
Vocations
A Wag
Which Is The Real One
Widows
The Wild Woman And The Fashionable Coquette
Windows
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About the Author
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-67) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential.

Customer Reviews

Baudelaire Vents His Spleen at the Outside World
The book that helped me overcome my prejudice against poetry--I carried "Paris Spleen" around with me for a couple of weeks after I first read it, and kept turning back to certain poems as I went about my daily errands. Even though it's nearly 150 years old it seems as timely and contemporary as it must have seemed when it was first published--absolutely top-notch.

Make sure to get the Varese translation!
This is a wonderful book -- Baudelaire's prose poems perfectly capture the spirit of 19th century Paris as it rushes into modernism. Don't be seduced by prettier editions of this book -- it is crucial to get the Varese translation! Also, Walter Benjamin's early to mid twentieth century critique of Baudelarie should not be missed.

The classic translation.
An elegant, accurate, and readable translation of this wonderful little book that can revolutionize your way of seeing and thinking. Some newer, and in some ways, better translations have appeared since this one became the "standard," but it's still a good buy and a sure bet for reading pleasure.