Paris Spleen

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words "e;dangerous"e;--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a metropolis on the eve of great change. In its deliberate fragmentation and merg...