The poetry of Baudelaire / editor, Tom Hubbard, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Celebrating the new: Baudelaire and his times / Rosemary Lloyd -- The critical reception of Baudelaire's poetry / Tom Hubbard -- A une passante: Walter Benjamin in Baudelaire-Ville / Beryl F. Schlossman -- Coming to terms: Baudelaire and Flaubert / Kathryn Oliver Mills -- Baudelaire and Poe / Lois Davis Vines -- "Le Cygne" Paris downstream / Beryl F. Schlossman -- Baudelaire's "Spleen et ideal": a brief rhetorical analysis / Maria Scott -- Forest of symbols and patterns of meaning: reading poetry through Baudelaire's "Correspondences" / David Evans -- Baudelaire's les phares revisited: creating an artistic canon for the romantic era / Fances Fowle -- Re-reading Baudelaire's "peintre de la vie moderne": guys, modernity, and Baudelaire's "Spiritual art" / Juliet Simpson -- Baudelaire and music / Randolph Paul Runyon -- Song settings of Baudelaire's poetry / Helen Abbott -- Baudelaire translations by three maverick poets: Roy Campbell, Robert Lowell, and James Robertson / Mario Relich -- Baudelaire's prose poems: scots as antidote to "French" / James W. Underhill -- Overcoming despair: "le voyage" and its ethical implications / Edward K. Kaplan.

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This book provides readers with in-depth discussions of poet, Baudelaire. This collection of essays, by both seasoned Baudelaire scholars and by newcomers, reflects the breadth of the poet's artistic and intellectual worlds. Special attention is paid to Baudelaire's active interest in music and in the visual arts and how this relates to his poetry, in accordance with his insights into the correspondances between the human senses.

English.

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