Charles Baudelaire

Most reviews of Vespertilia and Other Verses were extremely positive, though only one of them (by Norman Gale in Academy) mentioned the other books published under RMW 's different pseudonyms. Gale compared her...

Robert Ross closed A Note of Explanation which he contributed to the book in a tone of well-meant condescension: if Prospero is dead we value all the more the little memories of Miranda.William Rothenstein

This poem, which reflects her reading in Henry James , Scott Fitzgerald , and Charles Baudelaire , expresses whimsical regret that the days of ogres and dragons, perils and combat, knights and princesses, have passed.

The chapters are headed with quotations ranging eclectically through the international canon and counter-canon from Sophocles and The Ramayana of Valmiki (an ancient Indian epic) to Spike Milligan , via Charles Baudelaire , T. S. Eliot

On a Cenotaph quotes a phrase from Baudelaire 's poem Lesbos: the shocking juxtaposition of a dead body with adoration in le cadavre adoré di Sapho . Though SP supplied notes to some things...

The novel follows the paradigm of the Cinderella story, or rather that of King Cophetua and the beggar maid, where the lover's power, instead of the power of magic, raises up the abject heroine. Reworking...

As an undergraduate Larkin was naturally still finding his voice. One poem dating from probably 1943 has its title and its lesbian topic from Charles Baudelaire : Femmes Damnées. Larkin's poem of this title...

Charles Henri Ford dedicated to ES his study The Mirror of Baudelaire.

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

VL 's supernatural stories are concerned with the spiritual essences of places and past cultures, often represented through the reappearances of classical goddesses and gods, or comparatively lesser-known Renaissance and eighteenth-century figures. Vineta Colby finds...

ES loved Christina Rossetti from her childhood, and later thoroughly admired Gertrude Stein . As a young woman, however, she believed: Women's poetry, with the exception of Sappho . . . and Goblin MarketChristina Rossetti and...

In this spoof erotic Baudelairean fantasy, a Poet interviews the Egyptian Sphinx.

Some aspects of this fiction suggest an allegory on ES 's relation with Tchelitchew. Her Swift, named Jonathan Hare, explores the deepest circles of Hell, the depths of rage and disgust, in a...

Not only class, but class and national ideology is under the microscope here. The idea of Englishness is much appealed to. Price admonishes Lisa (who prattles freely of art and Aristotle and Baudelaire , though...

The protagonist is of this light-heartedly surrealist and paradoxically serious tale is Samuel Cramer, the main character of a Charles Baudelaire story,, now unnaturalistically aged and running a rooming-house in Africa. He has written a...