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256 pages ; 17 cm. |
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Everyman's library pocket poets |
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Everyman's library pocket poets.
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| Note |
Cover title: Baudelaire. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Les fleurs du mal: To the reader -- Consecration -- Albatross -- Elevation -- Correspondences -- I prize the memory -- Guiding lights -- Sick muse -- Muse for hire -- Bad monk -- Enemy -- Artist unknown -- Gypsies on the road -- Impenitent -- Punishment of pride -- Beauty -- Ideal -- Giantess -- Jewels -- Hymn to beauty -- By association -- Head of hair -- Urn of stilled sorrows -- You'd sleep with anyone -- Sed non satiata -- Even when she walks -- Carrion -- De profundis clamavi -- Vampire -- Lethe -- I spent the night -- Posthumous regret -- Cat -- Duellum -- Balcony -- Possessed -- Suppose my name -- Semper eadem -- Altogether -- What will you say tonight -- Living torch -- Against her levity -- Reversibility -- Confession -- Spiritual dawn -- Evening harmony -- Flask -- Poison -- Overcast -- Cat -- Fine ship -- Invitation to the voyage -- Irreparable -- Conversation (one side) -- Autumnal -- Song for late in the day -- Sisina -- To a Creole lady -- Moesta et Errabunda -- Incubus -- Autumn sonnet -- Sorrows of the moon -- Cats -- Owls -- Pipe -- Music -- Burial -- Fantastic engraving -- Happy corpse -- Cask of hate -- Cracked bell -- Spleen (I) -- Spleen (II) -- Spleen (III) -- Spleen (IV) -- Obsession -- Craving for oblivion -- Alchemy of suffering -- Sympathetic horror -- Heauton timoroumenos -- Irremediable -- Clock -- Parisian landscape -- Sun -- To a red-haired beggar girl -- Swan -- Seven old men -- Little old women -- In passing -- Twilight: Evening -- Gamblers -- Dance of death -- Love of deceit -- I have not forgotten -- You used to be jealous -- Mists and rain -- Twilight: Daybreak -- Soul of the wine -- Ragpickers' wine -- Murderer's wine -- Solitary's wine -- Lovers' wine -- Destruction -- Martyr -- Lesbos -- Damned women: Delphine and Hippolyta -- Damned women -- Two kind sisters -- Allegory -- Metamorphoses of the vampire -- Voyage to Cythera -- Eros and the skull -- Saint Peter's denial -- Death of lovers -- Death of the poor -- Death of artists -- Strange man's dream -- Travelers -- Fountain -- Berthe: Her eyes -- Hymn -- Promises of a face -- Voice -- Unforeseen -- To a Malabar girl -- Long way from here -- Romantic sunset -- Scrutiny at midnight -- Sad madrigal -- Rebel -- Meditation -- Abyss -- Icarus laments -- Lid -- Offended moon -- Epigraph for a banned book -- Prose poems: Old woman's despair -- Fool and the Venus -- Crowds -- Hemisphere in a head of hair -- Invitation to the voyage -- Solitude -- Get drunk! -- Favors of the moon -- Index of first lines. |
| Summary |
Modern Poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequaled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape--populated by the addicted and the damned. |
| Subject |
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Translations into English.
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Poetry.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections. English
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Baudelaire.
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| ISBN |
0679429107: $10.95 FPT ($14.50 Can.) |
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9780679429104 |
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