Poet Lives
Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity edited
by Patricia A. Ward, James S. Patty (Vanderbilt University Press) Charles
Baudelaire, possibly the most influential author of
nineteenth-century
France
, created a poetics of modernity and a thematics of the city; he
transcended genre by moving between poetry and prose. He is also the
most accessible of modern French poets to an American readership. These
essays examine Baudelaire's poetics and the complex relationship between
the poet and his twentieth-century literary heirs, including Rene Char,
Yves Bonnefoy, and Michel Deguy. The contributors, who include Deguy and
Bonnefoy, are all distinguished writers or critics noted for their own
poetry or for their scholarship on Baudelaire and in French studies.
Their essays go to the heart of what makes Baudelaire so important: his
modernity and his influence from the very beginning on other poets,
including those outside of
France
. The essays are written in English, with citations from Baudelaire and
other sources in both French and English.
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