Charles Baudelaire
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Baudelaire : Beyond Romanticism
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Baudelaire critique d'art never ceases to be a poet: "It will happen often," he writes, "to appreciate a painting only by the sum of ideas or dreams that it will bring into my mind."In other words, he describes as he wanders, with a keen perception that only makes possible a perfect availability to the contemplated work. It is in this capacity that he encenses Delacroix, "painter essentially literary", and mocks the…
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Baudelaire : Paris Spleen
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Published posthumously in 1869, Le Spleen de Paris, also known as Petits poèmes en prose, was conceived as a "during" at Les Fleurs du Mal. Baudelaire experienced a "poetic, musical prose without rhythm and rhyme, sufficiently flexible and struck enough to adapt to the lyrical movements of the soul, to the undulations of dreaming, to the sombresauts of consciousness". Exploring the meanderings of the city and the da…
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Baudelaire : The Flowers of Evil
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"This book, whose title: Flowers of Evil, – says all, is clothed [...] with sinister and cold beauty; it was made with fury and patience. Moreover, proof of its positive value is in all the evil that is said of it. The book puts people in fury," wrote Baudelaire to his mother, on July 9, 1857. In 1861 the second version of the collection appeared. The poems that compose it are the crucible of "magic operations", une…
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Baudelaire : Artificial Paradises
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"What is a paradise that is bought at the price of its eternal salvation?" In The Artificial Paradises (1860), which consists of two parts, The Poem of Hashish and A Digger of Opium, Baudelaire philosopher on the effects of hashish and translates, with a tragic glow, the Confessions of an English digger by Thomas De Quincey, published forty years earlier. As in his poetic work, the author of the Flowers of Evil exp…
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Baudelaire : Romantic Art
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"Romanticism," says Baudelaire, "is a grace, heavenly or infernal, to whom we owe eternal stigmas."These stigmatizations are evident in the work of many of the writers studied by Baudelaire throughout his twenty years of militant criticism. Activist criticism, indeed, and the part of controversy is great there. Criticism of current events, too, because it is about his contemporaries that the lucid and prophetic glan…
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