Selected Critical Studies of Baudelaire

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire.

List of contents

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Pierre Dupont; 2. Les drames et les romans honnêtes; 3. L'ecole païenne; 4. Edgar Allan Poe, sa vie, et ses oeuvres; 5. Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe; 6. Madame Bovary par Gustave Flaubert; 7. Théophile Gautier; 8. Le peintre de la vie moderne; 9. Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris; 10. Victor Hugo; 11. Pétrus Borel; 12. Auguste Barbier; 13. Théodore de Banville; 14. Les martyrs ridicules; 15. L'oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix.

About the author

Christopher Breslin, a poet and artist in his own right, brings a deep and sensitive appreciation for history and language to all his work. In addition to The Spleen of Paris, he has also translated Racine's Phaedra, numerous poems by Renée Vivien and Pierre de Ronsard, and Henri Guillemin's The Engulfed, a biography of Adèle Hugo.

Summary

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire. The essays cover a range of topics, from Edgar Allen Poe to Delacroix and Madame Bovary, and the majority are taken from Baudelaire's 1868 publication L'art romantique.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Baudelaire, Charles P. Baudelaire
• Assisted by: D. Parmee (Editor), Parmee D. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2015
• EAN: 9781107486959
• ISBN: 978-1-107-48695-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets