Unnamed Pleasures: Essential Poems
Pushkin Press Classics (Verlag)
978-1-78227-860-3 (ISBN)
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Here, in lushly visual and sonorous verse, we find themes that still preoccupy us today. Baudelaire captured life in the city like no one else, drawing a portrait of Paris as the ultimate glittering seductress - and also as a fragmented landscape peopled by isolated individuals. As much as an urban eyewitness, he was an incisive personal poet, vividly evoking the ebb and flow of desire: the joy of fulfilling it, the agony of feeling, and even worse, not feeling it. Terry's bold, contemporary translation style makes clear why Baudelaire, a century and a half after his death, is still the painter of modern life.
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was born in Paris. Trained in law, he flouted his family's wishes that he pursue a steady career to become a writer. Baudelaire spent freely and drank copiously, becoming known as a dandy in artistic circles, but his writing also quickly gained him renown as an influential thinker and belletrist. His first poetry collection, The Flowers of Evil, published in 1857, confirmed both sides of his reputation - it was instantly influential and highly praised, but also the subject of a notorious obscenity trial. Baudelaire worked across many genres, writing art criticism, poetry, essays, and translations, notably of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Always short of money, and increasingly subject to symptoms of syphilis, he embarked on an ill-fated lecture tour of Belgium, where he suffered a debilitating stroke in 1866, rendering him unable to speak for the final months of his life. His immense influence on French and English literature, already clear in his lifetime, has lived on since his death.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.11.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Pushkin Press Deluxe Classic |
| Übersetzer | Will Stone |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78227-860-5 / 1782278605 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78227-860-3 / 9781782278603 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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