Late Fragments Flares My Heart Laid Bare Prose Poems BelgiumDisrobed

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The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire

"In Richard Sieburth's lucid and precise translation and commentary, Baudelaire has found at long last a proper English voice."-Alberto Manguel

While not as well-known as his other works, Charles Baudelaire's late poems, drafts of poems, and prose fragments are texts indispensable to the history of modern poetics.

This volume brings together Baudelaire's late fragmentary writings, aphoristic in form and radical in thought, into one edited collection for the first time. Substantial introductions to each work by Richard Sieburth combine the literary context with formal analysis and reception history to give readers a comprehensive picture of the genesis of these works and their subsequent fate.

Baudelaire's turn toward fragmentary writing involved not only a conscious renunciation of his aesthetics of perfection and unity, but a desertion of the harmonies of the traditional lyric in favor of the disjunctions of prose. These are daring works, often painful to read in their misanthropy and unconventional beauty.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9780300185188
Published: July 2022

Number of pages: 440
Width: 156 mm
Height: 235 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Yale University Press