Product Description

tr Michael Hamburger, bilingual

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #706053 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-01
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 64 pages

Review
Anywhere Out Of The World
At One O'clock In The Morning
Confiteor Of The Artist
Crowds
The Double Room
The Eyes Of The Poor
The Favours Of The Moon
The Fool And The Venus
The Generous Gamester
Get Drunk!
A Hemisphere In A Head Of Hair
Invitation To The Voyage
Let's Beat Up The Poor
Loss Of A Halo
The Mirror
The Old Woman's Despair
The Port
Solitude
The Soup And The Clouds
Which Is The True One?
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)

Customer Reviews

Evocative
These prose poems were my first experience with Baudelaire. I didn't know what to expect, but they're pretty good. They are often vague, but even then manage to be evocative. I'll admit I also bought the book to help my French along (as it is bilingual), but it's Baudelaire and it's good and sometimes thought-provoking reading. Enivrez-vous! De vin, de poesie, de vertu, a votre guise. Enjoy.

One of the first modern poets
Modernity is what defines the work of Baudelaire. No elegant poems of love; no countryside-dreaming; no evocation of the Classics nor references to the past. On the contrary: urban life; the alienation brought aboout by capitalism; the angst of poor urban dwellers; alcohol and drugs. Poetry is no more just the search for beauty through words. Now, it is a vehicle for the expression of the individual. Content is more important than form, and therefore Baudelaire gets rid of the constraints imposed by verse, even free verse, and lets his soul spill out in a not lyrical, but dark manner.