Charles Baudelaire

Baudelaire on Poe (eBook, ePUB)

Critical Papers
Redaktion: Hyslop, Lois and Francis E.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Renowned poet Charles Baudelaire played a significant role in introducing Edgar Allan Poe to French readers by publishing widely read criticisms and translations of Poe's writings. The two writers shared an appreciation for the exotic, a taste for morbid subjects, and a devotion to artistic purity. Baudelaire immersed himself in the study of English for the express purpose of doing justice to Poe's works, and his translations established his reputation in the French literary world well before the publication of his most famous book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal.
In the first part of this study, "Edgar Allan Poe, His Life and Works," Baudelaire sketches his subject's biography and discusses several representative writings. Two additional essays analyze Poe's literary theories and offer intriguing reflections of Baudelaire's own sense of aesthetics. The compilation concludes with a critical miscellany of several other prefaces and notes on the American author and his works.
Dover (2014) republication of the edition published by the Bald Eagle Press, State College, Pennsylvania, 1952.
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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 173
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486789415
• Artikelnr.: 41661768

Autorenporträt

Poet, essayist, and art critic Charles Baudelaire (182167) wrote the highly influential Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), an 1857 book of decadent and erotic poetry. Baudelaire shared with Poe an appreciation of the macabre and supernatural as well as a brooding sense of melancholy. His scrupulous translations of Poe's work are ranked among the best.
The father of the detective novel and an innovator in the genre of science fiction, Edgar Allan Poe (180949) made his living as America's first great literary critic. Today he is best remembered for his short stories and poems, haunting works of horror and mystery that remain popular around the world.