Charles Baudelaire

TD opens A Sheaf with a quotation from Schiller and a dedication to her mother . The translated poems (nearly all of which have accompanying critical notes) come from a range of French authors including...

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

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

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

She already felt the terrible misery of being so young and ignorant. Years later, when her art education had come to a halt for lack of money, she went to the local Public Library...

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...

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...

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

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

The title is a phrase from a poem by Baudelaire ; it says that one ought to take a few flowers to the dead, who are desolate. The play was published in Bagpipe Muzak.

Stories she designed for particular sets of readers around this time, especially those for the Fabian New Age, show the edge of professionalism. She had already written bowdlerised versions of Baudelaire and Wilde ...

Flowers of Evil by George Dillon and ESVM , their translation of Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du Mal, was published by Harper . Individual poems bore the initials of one or other or both translators.

From April to June 1932 Millay and Dillon were in Paris together. Dillon had just, in his turn, won the Pulitzer Prize, and had a Guggenheim fellowship to support him, modestly, for the sake of...

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...