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Twenty Prose Poems Paperback - 1988

by Charles Baudelaire; Michael Hamburger (Translator)

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From the introduction by Michael Hamburger:

"Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The prose poem was a medium much suited to his habits and character. Being pre-eminently a moralist, he needed a medium that enabled him to illustrate a moral insight as briefly and vividly as possible. Being an artist and sensualist, he needed a medium that was epigrammatic or aphoristic, but allowed him scope for fantasy and for that element of suggestiveness which he considered essential to beauty. His thinking about society and politics, as about everything else, was experimental; like the thinking of most poets it drew on experience and imagination, rather than on facts and general arguments. That is another reason why the prose poem proved a medium so congenial to Baudelaire."

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet, essayist, art critic and translator for Edgar Allan Poe. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" to describe the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.

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  • Title Twenty Prose Poems
  • Author Charles Baudelaire; Michael Hamburger (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language FRE
  • Publisher City Lights Books, San Francisco
  • Publication date 1988-01-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780872862166 / 087286216X
  • Weight 0.25 lbs (0.11 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.96 x 5.51 x 0.28 in (20.22 x 14.00 x 0.71 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Prose poems, French - Translations into, Paris (France) - Poetry
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 88001047
  • Dewey Decimal Code 841.8
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