Selected Critical Studies of Baudelaire

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Baudelaire. The essays cover a range of topics, from Edgar Allen Poe to Delacroix and Madame Bovary, and the majority are taken from Baudelaire's 1868 publication L'art romantique. Parmée provides an introduction examining Baudelaire's views as revealed in the essays, as well as commenting on Baudelaire's style. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French literature.

Foreword; Introduction; 1. Pierre Dupont; 2. Les drames et les romans honnêtes; 3. L'ecole païenne; 4. Edgar Allan Poe, sa vie, et ses oeuvres; 5. Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe; 6. Madame Bovary par Gustave Flaubert; 7. Théophile Gautier; 8. Le peintre de la vie moderne; 9. Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris; 10. Victor Hugo; 11. Pétrus Borel; 12. Auguste Barbier; 13. Théodore de Banville; 14. Les martyrs ridicules; 15. L'oeuvre et la vie d'Eugène Delacroix.