Edward K. Kaplan
Although I like much of what Kaplan has to say about Baudelaire's ethical and aesthetic concerns in the prose poems, his willful disavowel of the formal aspects how of a poem in prose engages these concerns seems inherently off base.
A study ofprose poems Baudelaire wrote betweenand his death inand collected posthumously under the title "Le Spleen de Paris", translated as "The Parisian Prowler".
The author sees them as a coherent ensemble of fables of modern life that unite lyricism and critical selfawareness.
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