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Article: Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's 'Secret Architecutre'.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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Poetry and Moral Dialectic: Baudelaire's 'Secret Architecture'. By JAMES R. LAWLER. Cranbury, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; London and Mississauga, Ont.: Associated University Presses. 1997. 217 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].
Baudelaire: Selected Poems. Trans. by F. W. LEAKEY. Greenwich Exchange. 1997. 153 pp.
The 'architecture' of Les Fleurs du Mal has been a perennial issue of critical debate. Some commentators have supported the argument of a broad-brush linear tracking of a life from birth to death; others have emphatically rejected the notion of any deep-rooted coherence in the arrangement of the poems; most recently the collection has been seen ...