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Tag: Baudelaire

275. (Charles Baudelaire)

There’s much agreement that he speaks to and of a modern malaise like no other poet. He seems, at times, … More

Baudelaire, French poetry, pastoral, William Empson

274. (Charles Baudelaire)

All poetry is nature poetry—imagining what it is in the nature of things to do and become; nature is the … More

Baudelaire, French literature, Karl Barth, Modernity, Poetry

272. (Charles Baudelaire)

Even if Baudelaire’s lyrics are accepted as a symptom of modernity (but what great poetry written in the 19th century … More

Baudelaire, Charles Baudelaire, French poetry, Modernity, Poetry

270. (Charles Baudelaire)

The gray trances and suspended animation of Swinburne’s poetry owes more to Baudelaire than the chintzier trappings of forbidden love, … More

Baudelaire, modern poetry, Modernity, Poetry

149. (Robert Lowell)

“Self-accusation,” writes Geoffrey Hill, “is the life-blood of Romanticism.” For a long time, I thought Lowell a late-Romantic, working back, … More

American poetry, Baudelaire, rhetoric, Robert Lowell

99. (William Empson)

Whatever else its relationship to genre, wit is a particular way of coping with the world’s fragility, its tendency to … More

Alexander Pope, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Ricks, Jonathan Swift, Poetry, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, wit

89. (Andrew Marvell)

When T.S. Eliot, in his essay on Andrew Marvell, offered his incomparably confusing characterization of “wit,” what was he onto? … More

Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christopher Ricks, genre, Michael Wood, Poetry, T.S. Eliot, waste, William Empson, wit

54. (Alexander Pope)

Among the etchings on display at the MFA’s recent Goya exhibit, one from the series of Caprichos depicts an old woman, sat … More

Alexander Pope, Baudelaire, Goya, Poetry, Poetry and Painting

17. (Charles Baudelaire)

Robert Lowell’s 1961 Imitations did more for the reputation of twentieth-century poets Mandelstam and Montale than it did for the … More

Anthony Hecht, Baudelaire, Carne-Ross, Geoffrey Hill, Questions, Robert Lowell, Translation
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