Charles Baudelaire

In summer 1934 ESVM 's former lover George Dillon began translating Charles Baudelaire . The work went well at first but a year later he was bogged down. Millay offered comment and an introduction; she...

ET published The Island of Desire, her third novel, with a challenging epigraph from Baudelaire 's Un voyage à Cythère in which the speaker confronts himself hanging from a gibbet.

Ouida published a novel entitled Folle-Farine: the edition of 1883 used for the Victorian Women Writers Project quotes Baudelaire on its title-page.

HW provided an introduction for William Forbes Marshall 's Ballads and Verses from Tyrone, published by the Talbot Press of Dublin in 1929, and an Appreciation for George Saintsbury 's Shakespeare, 1934. Her...

She later mentioned two youthful pieces on social issues involving literature: one on the potential damage done by a cheap popular press, Baudelaire 's view of l'infâmie de l'imprimerie, and the other on the...

Wolff sees this novel as working out the Zola theory of hereditary destiny. However, although Ishmael vows to avenge his wrongs, when he discovers Pâquerette and Valnois separately years after their elopement he forgoes...

Black Venus re-interprets actual women of history whose public image has been demonized, like Lizzie Borden the alleged of murderess and Jeanne Duval (a mixed-race woman who suffered from syphilis, mistress and muse of Charles Baudelaire

Pursuing her established interest in the Black presence in Europe, MS here relates the story of Duval , mistress of the French poet Charles Baudelaire , the Black Venus of his poetry, who was fictionalised...

These essays thus represent a radical shift in thinking. They are much concerned with reputation. That on Machiavelli observes that he is a man uniquely misunderstood, whose reputation is uniquely skewed. Eliot argues that Baudelaire