Baudelaire, Les fleurs du mal
1992, First Edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #236402
ISBN: 0521369371
Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Llyod Austin, University of Manchester. Series; Landmarks of world literature. Physical description; viii, 116 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes index. Contents; Chronology; 1. Composition; 2. Themes; 3. Sound and verse; 4. Swan-song: Le Cygne; 5. Conclusion; Guide to further reading; Brief index of poems by Baudelaire. Summary; Les Fleurs du mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, became in the twentieth century the most famous, and the most admired: its challenge to convention when it was first published in 1857 led to its judicial condemnation, but it owes its 'landmark' status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a newly comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du mal, offering fresh insights into its composition, themes and style (sound as well as sense), and setting it in its historical context. A whole chapter is devoted to Baudelaire's crowning poetic achievement, Le Cygne, and the book includes a detailed index to individual poems as well as a guide to further reading. Subjects; Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867). Poetry & poets ; Literary studies: 19th century. French. Literary Criticism / Poetry. Literary Criticism / European / French. Baudelaire, Charles,--(1821-1867).--Fleurs du mal.
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