Baudelaire, Collected Essays, 1953-1988; Author: Leakey, F. W.; Hardback; Book

Author: Leakey, F. W.
Cambridge Studies in French; Hardback; Book; 15 Half-tones
346 pages
Published: May 1990
Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521323355
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This book of linked essays contains the first critical study of Baudelaire's development as a poet, from his youth onward. It also includes studies of the development of Baudelaire's aesthetic, detailed commentaries on a number of his finest poems, and accounts of three intriguing and crucial encounters with notable contemporaries. Three of the essays are previously unpublished and four very recent; the other eleven have been thoroughly updated, revised, and, in some cases, substantially expanded. Together, they constitute a new and important contribution to the understanding and appreciation of Baudelaire's work.This book of linked essays contains a critical study of Baudelaire's development as a poet, from youth onward. It includes studies of the development of his aesthetic, detailed commentaries of a number of his finest poems, and accounts of three crucial encounters with notable contemporaries.