Baudelaire: Poems : Translated by Richard Howard by Charles Baudelaire (1993, Hardcover)

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Baudelaire : Poems, Hardcover by Baudelaire, Charles, ISBN 0679429107, ISBN-13 9780679429104, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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.

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679429107
ISBN-139780679429104
eBay Product ID (ePID)342346

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Original LanguageFrench
Book TitleBaudelaire: Poems : Translated by Richard Howard
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1993
TopicEuropean / General, Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, Subjects & Themes / Places, General
GenrePoetry
AuthorCharles Baudelaire
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz
Item Length6.5 in
Item Width4.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-014363
ReviewsAlso 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
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal841.8
SynopsisModern 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., 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.
LC Classification NumberPQ2387.R5

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    I hated these poems and threw away the book. They are ugly for its own sake - not that there's any good reason to be ugly. Rimbaud tends to the not beautiful, but I'd rather read him.

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  • Perfect condition. The first modern poet, very interesting work.

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