Charles Baudelaire

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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

George Orwell , once a colonial policeman himself, criticized the book harshly for its fascination with damnation and suicide. As he put it, Greene harboured the idea, which has been floating around ever since 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...

Poems and Ballads appeared in 1866. This highly controversial collection, following closely on the heels of two successful plays, firmly established his literary reputation. He published an illustrated book of literary criticism, William Blake ...

EAP laboured for years as a journalist and editor. Although he had many publications prior to the 1845 publication of The Raven and Other Poems, it was this work that firmly established his popular...

OW 's significance as poet, playwright, and writer of prose fiction, remained in eclipse for many years after his notorious trial and imprisonment in Reading Gaol , events whose chilling impact on poetry and prose...

The book appeared with the original French on opposite pages from the translations. The second edition appeared the same year, with the title modified to Flowers of Evil, from the French of Charles Baudelaire...

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...