Author: BAUDELAIRE, CHARLES (1821-1867). LLOYD, ROSEMARY
Title: Selected letters of Charles Baudelaire : the conquest of solitude / translated and edited by Rosemary Lloyd
Description: Chicago : University of Chicago Press 1986. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.Provenance; from the personal library of Professor Lloyd Austin. University of Manchester. Physical description; xxxii. 268 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; Transl. of this vol. is based on the text of La correspondance de Baudelaire; ed. by Claude Pichois. 1982. Editions Gallimard. 'Index of works by Baudelaire': p. 255-257. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Translation of. selected letters from la Correspondance de Baudelaire. Summary; Undeniably one of the modern world's greatest literary figures. Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) left behind a correspondence documenting in intimate detail a life as intense in its extremes as his poetry. This extensive selection of his letters many translated for the first time into English depicts a poet divided between despair and elation. thoughts of suicide and intimations of immortality; a man who could write to his mother. 'We're obviously destined to love one another. to end our lives as honestly and gently as possible.' and say in the next sentence. 'I'm convinced that one of us will kill the other'; who courted and then suffered the controversy provoked by his masterpiece. 'Les Fleurs du mal'; who struggled throughout his life with syphilis contracted in his youth. near-intolerable financial restrictions imposed by his stepfather. and conflicting feelings of failure and revolt dating from his school days. Writing to family. friends. and lovers. Baudelaire reveals the incidents and passions that went into his poetry. In letters to editors. idols. and peers Hugo. Flaubert. Vigny. Wagner. Cladel. among others he elucidates the methods and concerns of his own art and criticism and comments tellingly on the arts and politics of his day. In all. ranging from childhood to days shortly before his death. these letters comprise a complex and moving portrait of the quintessential poet and his time.' Subjects; Baudelaire. Charles (1821-1867) - Correspondence. Baudelaire. Charles (1821-1867) - Translations into English. Baudelaire. Charles (1821-1867) - Biography. Poets. French - 19th century - Correspondence. Poets. French - 19th century - Biography. Poetry in French - Baudelaire. Charles - Correspondence. diaries. etc. Poetry in French - Baudelaire. Charles - (1821-1867) - Correspondence. diaries. Essays. journals. letters & other prose works ; Poetry & poets ; Literary studies: 19th century. French. Literary Collections / Letters. Baudelaire. Charles - Translations into English. Baudelaire. Charles - Correspondence. Genres; Autobiography. Bibliography. ISBN: 0226039285. Weight in Kg appr.:

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