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Article: Understanding 'Les Fleurs du Mal'; Critical Readings.(Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of European Studies
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Edited by William J. Thompson. Foreword by Claude Pichois. Nashville and London: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 241. $18.95 (pbk).
This collection of analyses is not informed by any particular programme; if anything, it repudiates programme in the name of the self-renewing variety of response to Baudelaire. Its advantage lies in the way in which its contributors have all managed to combine a sense of accumulated critical insight with an emphasis on first-time accessibility. Baudelaire does not emerge from this sequence of scrutinies as a changed poet, but as one whose work is, as Ross Chambers would have it, 'subject to endless historical recycling' ...