Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose by Charles Baudelaire

Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose

Wesleyan Poetry

Charles Baudelaire with Keith Waldrop (Translator)

116 pages first pub 1869 (editions)

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Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words "dangerous"—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s...

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