Poems in Prose

Poems in ProseThe "Petits Pomes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us,"...
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Author: Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867
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Poems in Prose

Poems in Prose

$15.41

Poems in Prose

$15.41
Author: Baudelaire, Charles,1821-1867
Format: eBook
Language: English

Poems in Prose

The "Petits Pomes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle and staccato enough to follow the lyric motions of the soul, the wavering outlines of meditation, the sudden starts of the conscience?" This miracle he has achieved in these bagatelles laborieuses, to use his own words, these astonishing trifles, in which the art is not more novel, precise and perfect than the quality of thought and of emotion. In translating into English a few of these little masterpieces, which have given me so much delight for so many years, I have tried to be absolutely faithful to the sense, the words, and the rhythm of the original. And she came softly down the staircase of the clouds, and passed noiselessly through the window-pane. Then she laid herself upon you with the supple tenderness of a mother, and she left her colours upon your face. That is why your eyes are green and your cheeks extraordinarily pale. It was when you looked at her, that your pupils widened so strangely; and she clasped her arms so tenderly about your throat that ever since you have had the longing for tears. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 50489
Author: Baudelaire, Charles
Release Date: Nov 19, 2015
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945

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