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Baudelaire

Baudelaire

Baudelaire

Collected Essays, 1953–1988
F. W. Leakey
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 Three of the essays are previously unpublished and four very recent; the other eleven have been thoroughly updated, revised, and, in some cases, substantially expanded.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 1990
    Hardback
    9780521323352
    364 pages
    216 × 140 × 24 mm
    0.61kg
    15 b/w illus.
    Available

    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.
      Contributors
    • Eva Jacobs, Claude Pichois

    • Editor
    • Eva Jacobs