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French
City Lights
02 January 2001
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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Imprint:   City Lights
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 7mm
Weight:   127g
ISBN:   9780872862166
ISBN 10:   087286216X
Pages:   100
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Reviews for Twenty Prose Poems

'Brilliantly original and fascinating' Evelyn Waugh 'A master of malice and mayhem' Michiko Katutani, NEW YORK TIMES


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