Selected Poems (Penguin Classics)
- Authors
- Baudelaire, Charles & Clark, Carol
- Publisher
- Penguin Group (USA)
- Tags
- french , poetry , history & criticism , european , classics , literature & fiction , criticism & theory , regional & cultural , genres & styles
- ISBN
- 9781101493649
- Date
- 2010-10-25
- Size
- 1.82 MB
- Lang
- fr
In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.