Title

The Parisian prowler = Le spleen de Paris : petits poèmes en prose / by Charles Baudelaire ; translated by Edward K. Kaplan.

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867

Publication

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Kaplan, Edward K., 1942-

Description

xxii, 138 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Spleen de Paris. English

Alternative Title

• Spleen de Paris.
• Spleen de Paris

Subjects

• Translations
• Poetry
• Paris (France) > Poetry
• Prose poems, French > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Translations
• Poetry.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Baudelaire's neglected masterpiece -- The stranger -- The old woman's despair -- The artist's confiteor -- A joker -- The double room -- To each his chimera -- The fool and the Venus -- The dog and the scent-bottle -- The bad glazier -- At one o'clock in the morning -- The wild woman and the affected coquette -- Crowds -- Widows -- The old acrobat -- The cake -- The clock -- A hemisphere in tresses -- Invitation to the voyage -- The pauper's toy -- The fairies' gifts -- The temptations, or, Eros, Plutus, and fame -- Twilight -- Solitude -- Plans -- Beautiful Dorothy -- The eyes of the poor -- A heroic death -- The counterfeit coin -- The generous gambler -- The rope -- Vocations -- The thyrsus -- Get high -- Already! -- Windows -- The desire to paint -- The moon's benefits.

ISBN

0820318795 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96032135^

OCLC

35209392

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library