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Zusatztext Also available in everyman's library pocket poets W. H. Auden William Blake Lord Byron Emily Dickinson John Donne Thomas Hardy Gerard Manley Hopkins John Keats Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Rimbaud Christina Rossetti William Shakespeare Percy Bysshe Shelley Wallace Stevens Walt Whitman William Wordsworth Animal Poems Erotic Poems Friendship Poems Love Poems Prayers Informationen zum Autor CHARLES BAUDELAIRE (1821–67) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil , but his essays, translations and prose poems have been equally influential. Klappentext Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67)! who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy! desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual! titanic in the changes he wrought! Baudelaire looms over all the work! great and small! created in his wake. Zusammenfassung A beautiful hardcover selection of poetry from the groundbreaking author of The Flowers of Evil , translated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard. Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape—populated by the addicted and the damned—which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought to the literary world, Baudelaire looms over all the poetic work, great and small, created in his wake. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jewel-toned jacket....
