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Article: Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2003
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Baudelaire and the Poetics of Modernity. Ed. by PATRICIA A. WARD. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press. 2001. xii + 230 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-8265-1377-8.
This book is a tribute to Claude Pichois, who from 1982 to 1998 was director of the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire Studies at Vanderbilt University. The contributors are a mix of scholars and practitioners, permitting a multiplicity of perspectives on Baudelaire's poetic practice. In a brief but trenchant preface, Patricia Ward clarifies the focus of the essays. At the heart of modernity is a facing up to the enigmatic nature of existence, and so the subject of this book is Baudelaire's resultant 'dark ...