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I am truly grateful to those individuals who made this fine work available on Kindle for free. I feel as though I have a free lending library at my fingertips. As for content, it is excellent and readable.This work begins with an introduction by James Huneker. To be completely honest about it, this introduction was the best part of the work for me. I found it very illuminating and instructive. I also was very glad to discover James Huneker, a scholar and critic with whom I intend to become more familiar. Apparently Mr. Huneker was friends with another person who I have previously studied, H. L. Mencken.
As far as the actual poetry of Charles Baudelaire, this is another example of a great talent that I can appreciate but not enjoy. My tastes in poetry, as in most things, tend to be simple. I feel that poetry can be very elegant and still simple. That is more my taste. Charles Baudelaire is a little too sophisticated for me. Charles Baudelaire, as with many of us, had his personal demons with which to contend. I can see that in some of his work. Charles Baudelaire influenced later poets such as T. S. Eliot. Although I can sense that influence, I also struggle with some Mr. Eliot's poetry.
In summary, I am both glad and grateful to have been able to access this work for free. I love the introduction by James Huneker and like, but am not in love with the actual poetry of Baudelaire. Thank You...
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The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker eBook Charles Baudelaire James Huneker Reviews
Nice collection. I read one or two poems every couple of days. If you read one or two, you'll be hooked, and understand why Baudelaire is still read in the 21st century.
Another free book that is good to have in one's library. However, I would have to get out several different copies and see if this translation fails and I haven't done that.
Great
The book itself came in a good edition. I personally don't like Charles Baudelaire I think he was very cruel as a person, and this is evident in his works. Very morbid too. But the book is good for those who like him.
First of all, I enjoy reading Beaudelaire's prose poetry. It is always interesting and often with a "different" look at life as Modernism was going full force.
I particularly like this edition for the Paperwhite. It is well formatted, unlike some books I have purchased. Beaudelaire and make the perfect combination.
Who am I to review the great Baudelaire, really? I picked this up with the intention of reading a poem or two for a friend's birthday. I found that I enjoyed much of what I read, more than I thought I would. The formatting was good for a public domain book. I am happy that I own this collection, but it's not something that I would read over and over.
From the Introduction
... That Baudelaire said, "Evil be thou my good," is doubtless true. He proved all things and found them vanity. He is the poet of original sin, a worshipper of Satan for the sake of paradox; his Litanies to Satan ring childish to us—in his heart he was a believer. His was "an infinite reverse aspiration," and mixed up with his pose was a disgust for vice, for life itself. He was the last of the Romanticists; Sainte-Beuve called him the Kamchatka of Romanticism; its remotest hyperborean peak. Romanticism is dead to-day, as dead as Naturalism; but Baudelaire is alive, and read.
(James Huneker was a newspaper critic of the generation before Mencken, who adored him. This introduction to Baudelaire is urbane and illuminating. One more excerpt)
... Despite Gautier's stories about the Hôtel Pimodan and its club of hasheesh-eaters, M. Mendès denies that Baudelaire was a victim of the hemp. What the majority of mankind does not know concerning the habits of literary workers is this prime fact men who work hard, writing verse—and there is no mental toil comparable to it—cannot drink, or indulge in opium, without inevitable collapse. The old-fashioned ideas of "inspiration," spontaneity, easy improvisation, the sudden bolt from heaven, are delusions still hugged by the world.
Some have suggested that Baudelaire's translation of Poe is better than the original, but I'm sure no one has suggested any English Baudelaire is anything but a travesty. So the best editions have the original French facing. But here are some verses with some of the original cited in the Introduction
The Might-have-been with tooth accursed
Gnaws at the piteous souls of men,
The deep foundations suffer first,
And all the structure crumbles then
Beneath the bitter tooth accursed.
II. Often, when seated at the play,
And sonorous music lights the stage,
I see the frail hand of a Fay
With magic dawn illume the rage
Of the dark sky. Oft at the play
A being made of gauze and fire
Casts to the earth a Demon great.
And my heart, whence all hopes expire,
Is like a stage where I await,
In vain, the Fay with wings of fire!
J'ai vu parfois au fond d'un théâtre banal
Qu'enflammait l'orchestre sonore,
Une fée allumer dans un ciel infernal
Une miraculeuse aurore;
J'ai vu parfois au fond d'un théâtre banal
Un être, qui n'était que lumière, or et gaze,
Terrasser rénorme Satan;
Mais mon cœur que jamais ne visite l'extase,
Est un théâtre où l'on attend
Toujours, toujours en vain l'Etre aux ailes de gaze.
Recommended for anyone who has heard the name of Baudelaire, but never sampled his strange, compelling music.
I am truly grateful to those individuals who made this fine work available on for free. I feel as though I have a free lending library at my fingertips. As for content, it is excellent and readable.
This work begins with an introduction by James Huneker. To be completely honest about it, this introduction was the best part of the work for me. I found it very illuminating and instructive. I also was very glad to discover James Huneker, a scholar and critic with whom I intend to become more familiar. Apparently Mr. Huneker was friends with another person who I have previously studied, H. L. Mencken.
As far as the actual poetry of Charles Baudelaire, this is another example of a great talent that I can appreciate but not enjoy. My tastes in poetry, as in most things, tend to be simple. I feel that poetry can be very elegant and still simple. That is more my taste. Charles Baudelaire is a little too sophisticated for me. Charles Baudelaire, as with many of us, had his personal demons with which to contend. I can see that in some of his work. Charles Baudelaire influenced later poets such as T. S. Eliot. Although I can sense that influence, I also struggle with some Mr. Eliot's poetry.
In summary, I am both glad and grateful to have been able to access this work for free. I love the introduction by James Huneker and like, but am not in love with the actual poetry of Baudelaire. Thank You...
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