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Baudelaire's world
"Charles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire's World provides English language readers with the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts that will lead to a fuller understanding and enjoyment of the great French poet's work.". "Rosemary Lloyd considers all of Baudelaire's writing, including his criticism, theory, and letters, as well as poetry. In doing so, she sets the poems themselves in a richer context, in a landscape of real places populated with actual people. She shows how Baudelaire's poetry was marked by the influence of the writers and artist who preceded him or were his contemporaries. Lloyd builds an image of Baudelaire's world around major themes of this writing - childhood, women, reading, the city, dreams, art, nature, death. Throughout, she finds that his words and themes echo the...
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