Baudelaire's World / / Rosemary Lloyd.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lloyd, Rosemary,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 14 halftones

Charles Baudelaire is often regarded as the founder of modernist poetry. Written with clarity and verve, Baudelaire's World provides English-language readers with the biographical, historical, and cultural contexts that will lead to a fuller understanding and enjoyment of the great French poet's work.Rosemary Lloyd considers all of Baudelaire's writing, including his criticism, theory, and letters, as well as poetry. In doing so, she sets the poems themselves in a richer context, in a landscape of real places populated with actual people. She shows how Baudelaire's poetry was marked by the influence of the writers and artists who preceded him or were his contemporaries. Lloyd builds an image of Baudelaire's world around major themes of his writing-childhood, women, reading, the city, dreams, art, nature, death. Throughout, she finds that his words and themes echo the historical and physical realities of life in mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Lloyd also explores the possibilities and limitations of translation. As an integral part of her treatment of the life, poetry, and letters of her subject, she also reflects on published translations of Baudelaire's work and offers some of her own translations.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Brief Chronology -- Note and Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. To the Reader -- CHAPTER TWO. The Palimpsest of Memory -- CHAPTER THREE. Genius Is Childhood Recovered at Will -- CHAPTER FOUR. An Evocative Magic -- CHAPTER FIVE. Anywhere Out of the World -- CHAPTER SIX. Mundus Muliebris: The World of Women -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Talking to Friends -- CHAPTER EIGHT. City of Dreams -- CHAPTER NINE. Nature, the Pitiless Enchantress -- CHAPTER TEN. The Art of Transposition -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Old Captain Death -- The Tip of the Iceberg -- Bibliography of Translations -- Selected Bibliography -- Index of Works by Baudelaire -- General Index