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Tag: French poetry

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

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

88. (Derek Mahon)

Itching dissatisfaction; Mahon is harder to get a hold of than any one poem suggests. The same could be said, … More

Contemporary Poetry, Derek Mahon, French poetry, Poetry, rhetoric, W.H. Auden

81. (Joachim du Bellay)

Not a name that gets much English or American attention these (or other) days, Joachim du Bellay made his way … More

C.H. Sisson, Classical poetry, French poetry, Joachim du Bellay, Ovid, Petrarch, Poetry, Renaissance poetry, Rome, satire, the sonnet, Translation
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