Le Spleen de Paris

by Charles Baudelaire

Overview

Le Spleen de Paris parut en 1869, deux ans après la mort de son auteur. Baudelaire avait conçu d'écrire un volume de poèmes en prose dès 1857. Il peina jusqu'à la fin de sa vie pour terminer ce livre. La presque totalité des textes fut cependant publié dans diverses revues. Baudelaire mentionne successivement plusieurs titres pour ce futur recueil ; finalement, il hésita entre Le Spleen de Paris et Petits poèmes en prose ; aujourd'hui on emploie l'un ou l'autre de ces titres.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788726657579
Publisher:	Saga Egmont French
Publication date:	02/03/2022
Sold by:	De Marque
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	455 KB
Language:	French

About the Author

Charles Baudelaire: Baudelaire (1821-1867) was France's most influential nineteenth-century poet. He was also a brilliant critic. A controversial figure in his lifetime, his collection of poems Les Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) is regarded as a masterpiece.

Francis Scarfe: Francis Scarfe (1911-1986) was a lecturer in French poetry at Glasgow University before and again after World War II. From 1959 to 1978, he was director of the British Institute. In recognition of his contribution to Anglo-French cultural relations he was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres (1962), and for his work on Baudelaire he was awarded the Prix de L'Ile Saint-Louis (1966); on his retirement in 1978 he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He was the author of four collections of poetry and of the critical works Auden and After and André Chénier, His Life and Work.