Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism - Literary Movements, French Poetry - Literary Criticism, 19th Century French Literature - Literary Criticism
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Overview
Before the mid-nineteenth century the modern industrial metropolis played only a minor role in lyric poetry. By incorporating the new urban reality into their poetry as a physical and mental counterpart to the romantic world of nature, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and Verhaeren helped to accomplish an aesthetic and mental "quantum leap" which still influences lyric poetry today. This book traces the attempt of three representative poets to explore the uncharted and repulsive, yet strangely mysterious and beautiful realm of the industrialized cityscape as an embodiment of lyric consciousness, as an intimate and enigmatic protection of themselves and their fellow human beings.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1994
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1994.
Pages
364
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820414348