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Paris Inconnu (Hardcover)
Charles Baudelaire, Alfred Delvau, Alexandre Privat D'Anglemont
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R880
Discovery Miles 8 800
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Le classique de la litt rature par Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs
du mal, est publi ici nouveau pour le lecteur enthousiaste. La
belle po sie, typique de l' poque moderniste, est inclus sans abr
gement. Les six sections sont les suivantes: Spleen et Id al
Tableaux Parisiens Le Vin Fleurs du mal R volte La Mort Au moment
de la publication initiale dans les ann es 1860, Baudelaire a t
accus d'avoir viol les lois de censure. Il a t sommairement condamn
une amende, avec six po mes incrimin s ont t retir s de la deuxi me
dition. Cependant, ils ont t remplac s par trente-cinq nouveaux po
mes, qui cherchaient pr server la profondeur th matique. L' diteur
est fier d'apporter le texte original pour le public moderne. Les
Fleurs du Mal a b n fici d'un grand nombre d'adaptations pour plus
de cent ans, suscitant l'inspiration pour ses audacieuses, versets
palpitants.
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Cat Poems (Paperback)
Elizabeth Bishop, Stevie Smith, Ezra Pound, Charles Baudelaire, William Carlos Williams, …
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R229
Discovery Miles 2 290
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You Know How a Cat
will bring a mouse it has
caught and lay it at your
feet so each morning I
bring you a poem that
I've written when I woke
up in the night as my tribute
to your beauty &
a promise of my love.
-James Laughlin
Across the ages, cats have provided their adopted humans with companionship, affection, mystery, and innumerable metaphors. Cats raise a mirror up to their beholders; cats endlessly captivate and hypnotise, frustrate and delight. To poets, in particular, these enigmatic creatures are the most delightful and beguiling of muses, as they purr, prowl, hunt, play, meow, and nap, often oblivious to their so-called masters. Cat Poems offers a litter of odes to our beloved felines by some of the greatest poets of all time.
Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but
ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles
Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing
gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the
banality of modern city life. First published in 1857, the book
that collected these poems together, Les Fleurs du mal, was an
instant sensation—earning Baudelaire plaudits and,
simultaneously, disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had
endured his own public trial for published indecency (for Madame
Bovary), a French court declared Les Fleurs du mal an offense
against public morals and six poems within it were immediately
suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949, nearly
a century after Baudelaire’s untimely death). Subsequent editions
expanded on the original, including new poems that have since been
recognized as Baudelaire’s masterpieces, producing a body of work
that stands as the most consequential, controversial and
influential book of poetry from the nineteenth century. Acclaimed
translator and poet Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary
text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire’s lyrical
innovations—rendering them in “an assertive blend of full and
slant rhymes and fluent iambs” (A. E. Stallings)—and an
intuitive feel for the work’s dark and brooding mood.
Poochigian’s version captures the incantatory, almost magical,
effect of the original—reanimating for today’s reader
Baudelaire’s “unfailing vision” that “trumpeted the space
and light of the future” (Patti Smith). An introduction by Dana
Gioia offers a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of
Baudelaire’s masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler
explores its continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in
English and French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows
readers to commune both with the original poems and with these
electric, revelatory translations.
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