Charles Baudelaire

AB published an ambitious art-critical work: The Genius of the Future: Studies in French Art Criticism: Diderot , Stendhal , Baudelaire , Zola , The BrothersGoncourt , Huysmans.

Its subjects are Ingres , Delacroix and Antoine-Jean Gros , Musset , Baudelaire , Edmond and Jules Goncourt , Zola and Huysmans . That is, AB has returned to take a different view of 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...

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...

This book's title has been called the first of many to reflect EB 's concern with places. Place, however, is not described but interrogated, in abstract and self-enquiring poems, like Paris, 7 a.m. This...

The volume reproduces in facsimile no fewer than sixteen drafts of one of EB 's best-known poems, One Art; Quinn's notes include snippets of rejection letters from the New Yorker. The passages...

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...

NB wanted to leave school to be a war correspondent, but a strong-minded aunt persuaded her to try for Somerville College, Oxford. In the general paper of the entrance exam, she wrote on the future...

At the age of ten Anna started attending school in Tsarskoe Selo, but fell ill a few months later and had to withdraw. She learnt French at home and by the age of thirteen...