The collection of prose poems known as Le Spleen de Paris is an important, puzzling, and yet relatively neglected area of Baudelaire's work. This is the first study in English that is exclusively concerned with these texts. Approaching the poems chronologically, Hiddleston focuses primarily on the position of the artist and his attitude towards his art, the often enigmatic and contradictory moral message the poems purpose to convey and, above all, the relationship between prose and poetry in this hybrid and, by the poet's own admission, "dangerous" genre.
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'As the only full-scale book on the prose-poems in English this study goes some way towards filling a notable gap.' French Studies



Book Information
ISBN 9780198158455
Author J. A. Hiddleston
Format Paperback
Page Count 130
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 139mm * 14mm