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E-book Title: Baudelaire's Paris
Author: Nigel Woodhead
Book Description: A guided tour through 19th century Paris, evocatively illustrated, with suggested poems for each of the important locations from the poet's life. Two literary tours through the key sights and addresses that mark the poet's life, each ending at his grave. The first is a virtual Biographical Tour, chronologically organised. The second is a suggested Day Trip through the French capital, geographically organised, with clear instructions for visiting the sites on foot and by public transport. Each tour has its own Table of Contents.
At each of the sites, one of Baudelaire's best poems is presented, in the original French, and with an English translation. Translators include the Decadent poet Arthur Symonds (the first to translate Baudelaire), the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley, and artist Edna St. Vincent Millay. Evocatively illustrated with period and contemporary images that complement the settings and themes of the poems.
You can read this book in several ways: as an anthology of some of the most influential Bohemian poetry; as a biography of one of the 19th century's foremost literary figures; or as a guidebook to some of the French capital's most atmospheric locations.
Should you choose to make a pilgrimage in the flesh to the locations in this book, you will be following in the footsteps of many thousands of other fans and disciples of Baudelaire - from 19th century decadent writers and artists, including Oscar Wilde, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, to famous singers of our own times, notably Serge Gainsbourg, Jim Morrison and Patti Smith.
Oscar Wilde spent the last months of his life in Paris - like Baudelaire, his health ruined by alcohol and drugs. Morrison too fell victim to the curse, and lies in Père Lachaise cemetery - not far from Wilde. Gainsgbourg also died before his time, and is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery, not far from Baudelaire. More... | |
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