Charles Baudelaire: A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismWalter Benjamin, one of the foremost cultural ommentators and theorists of the 20th century, is perhaps best known for his analyses of art in the modern age and the philosophy of history. Yet, it was through his study of the social and cultural history of late-19th-century Paris, examined particularly in relation to the figure of the great Parisian lyric poet Charles Baudelaire, that Benjamin tested and enriched some of his core concepts and themes. |
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His sonnet to the venal muse - · ' La Muse vénale ' – speaks of this . The great
introductory poem , ' Au Lecteur ' , presents the poet in the unflattering position of
someone • who takes cold cash for his confession . One of his earliest poems ...
His sonnet to the venal muse - · ' La Muse vénale ' – speaks of this . The great
introductory poem , ' Au Lecteur ' , presents the poet in the unflattering position of
someone • who takes cold cash for his confession . One of his earliest poems ...
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It is almost impossible , ' wrote a Parisian secret agent in 1798 , ' to maintain good
behaviour in a thickly populated area where an individual is , so to speak ,
unknown to all others and thus does not have to blush in front of anyone . ' 11
Here ...
It is almost impossible , ' wrote a Parisian secret agent in 1798 , ' to maintain good
behaviour in a thickly populated area where an individual is , so to speak ,
unknown to all others and thus does not have to blush in front of anyone . ' 11
Here ...
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38 He might have said that he was the first to speak also of the opiate that was
available to give relief to men so condemned , and only to them . The crowd is not
only the newest asylum of outlaws ; it is also the latest narcotic for those ...
38 He might have said that he was the first to speak also of the opiate that was
available to give relief to men so condemned , and only to them . The crowd is not
only the newest asylum of outlaws ; it is also the latest narcotic for those ...
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