Description: Further DetailsTitle: Twenty Prose PoemsCondition: NewEAN: 9780872862166ISBN: 9780872862166Publisher: City Lights BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/18/1988Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 139mmItem Weight: 127gAuthor: Charles BaudelaireTranslator: Michael HamburgerContributor: Michael Hamburger (Translated by)Genre: Poetry & DramaItem Width: 7mmRelease Year: 1988 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Twenty Prose Poems
Title: Twenty Prose Poems
EAN: 9780872862166
ISBN: 9780872862166
Release Date: 02/18/1988
Release Year: 1988
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Michael Hamburger
Contributor: Michael Hamburger (Translated by)
Book Title: Twenty Prose Poems
Number of Pages: 64 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: City Lights
Topic: European / French, European / General, General
Item Height: 0.3 in
Publication Year: 1988
Genre: Poetry
Item Weight: 4.5 Oz
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
