Mysteries of the City
Mark Ford: Baudelaire and Modernity, 21 February 2013
Baudelaire: The Complete Verse
edited and translated by Francis Scarfe.
Anvil, 470 pp., £10.95, January 2012,978 0 85646 427 0 Show More
edited and translated by Francis Scarfe.
Anvil, 470 pp., £10.95, January 2012,
Baudelaire: Paris Blues/Le Spleen de Paris
edited and translated by Francis Scarfe.
Anvil, 332 pp., £10.95, January 2012,978 0 85646 429 4 Show More
edited and translated by Francis Scarfe.
Anvil, 332 pp., £10.95, January 2012,
Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s Modernity
by Françoise Meltzer.
Chicago, 264 pp., £29, May 2011,978 0 226 51988 3 Show More
by Françoise Meltzer.
Chicago, 264 pp., £29, May 2011,
“... wandering through a kind of wasteland, ‘terrains cendreux, calcinés, sans verdure’ (in Francis Scarfe’s prose translation: ‘ashen, vacant lots, burnt to a cinder where no green grew’); he sharpens, Hamlet-like, the ‘dagger’ of his thoughts on his heart. Dickens uses exaggeration and bathos to poke fun at the pretensions of ... ”
