Baudelaire
Baudelaire
Collected Essays, 1953–1988
F. W. Leakey
Eva Jacobs
Claude Pichois
Eva Jacobs
Claude Pichois
May 1990
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This book of linked essays contains the first critical study of Baudelaire's development as a poet, from his youth onward. It also includes studies of the development of Baudelaire's aesthetic, detailed commentaries on a number of his finest poems, and accounts of three intriguing and crucial "encounters" with notable contemporaries. Three of the essays are previously unpublished and four very recent; the other eleven have been thoroughly updated, revised, and, in some cases, substantially expanded. Together, they constitute a new and important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of Baudelaire's work.
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May 1990Hardback
9780521323352
364 pages
216 × 140 × 24 mm
0.61kg
15 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Forewords Eva Jacobs, Claude Pichois
- Author's preface and acknowledgments
- Part I. The Composition of Les Fleurs du Mal:
- 1. Pour une chronologie des Fleurs du Mal (1967
- 1988)
- 2. Baudelaire-Cramer: les sens de Orfraies (1985)
- 3. Les Lesbiennes: A verse novel? (1988)
- 4. Les Limbes: 'The Agitations and Melancholies of Modern Youth' (1988)
- 5. Les Fleurs du Mal (1857–1865): The resuscitation of the 'pièces sacrifiées' (1988)
- 6. Poet - or 'architect'? (1966
- 1988)
- Part II. Les Fleurs de Mal: Themes and Interpretations
- 7. The amorous tribute (1968)
- 8. The originality of Le Cygne (1973)
- Part III. Les Fleurs du Mal: The Creative Process:
- 9. The Mortimer poems
- 10. The Delacroix/Tasso Sonnet of 1844 (1988)
- 11. Harmonie du soir (1967)
- 12. Les sept versions des Sept Vieillards (in collaboration with Claude Pichois) (1973)
- Part IV. Baudelaire-Dufays:
- 13. Les Esthétiques de Baudelaire: le 'système' des années 1844–1847 (1967)
- 14. A philosophy of opportunism (1845–1846) (1965)
- Part V. Encounters:
- 15. Asselineau, Corot et Les Limbes (1973)
- 16. Fontainebleau and Denecourt (1968
- 1988)
- 17. 'Un architecte songeur': H. E. Kendall (1956)
- Notes
- Illustrations
- F. W. Leakey: publications
- Indexes.
