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Baudelaire: Poems by Charles Baudelaire
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in ...Show more
On Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire
$27.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
"On Wine and Hashish" asserts the ambivalence of memory, urging a union of willpower and sensual pleasure as Baudelaire claims that wine and hashish bring about an escape of narrative time. This characteristic theme anticipates his famous prose poems, "Le Spleen de Paris", in which drunkenness - as prov ...Show more
On Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire
$24.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Initially composed for newspaper publication and inspired by Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, Baudelaire's musings on wine and hashish provide acute - and fascinating - psychological insight into the mind of the addict. On Wine and Hashish asserts the ambivalence of memory, urging a un ...Show more
Paris Spleen and on Wine and Hashish by Charles Baudelaire
$18.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city with all its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sens ...Show more
Selected Writings on Art and Literature by Charles Baudelaire
$12.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of "Les Fleurs du Mal", Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This stimulating selection of criticism reveals him as a worshipper at the altar of beauty, illuminating his belief ...Show more
The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics) by Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr ...Show more
The Painter of Modern Life by Charles Baudelaire
$12.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Poet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. "Great Ideas": throug ...Show more
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