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Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil ( Les Fleurs du Mal ) may be the most influential, and perhaps the greatest, book of lyric poetry in French literature. At once Romantic and modernist, it belongs to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume in the MLA’s series Approaches to Teaching World Literature is the first devoted to a lyric poet who did not write in English, and it
Cheryl Krueger is associate professor of French at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Art of Procrastination: Baudelaire’s Poetry in Prose and coauthor of Tâches d’encre and Mise-en-scène: Cinéma et lecture . Her articles on French literature, film, and cultural studies have appeared in a variety of journals. Her current book project treats the culture and poetics of
Responses to a survey conducted for this volume indicate that most teachers of Blake begin with Songs of Innocence and of Experience; the work is included in the syllabi of courses on literature and poetry at all levels, as well as courses in religious studies, humanities, and composition. The book’s continuing fascination can be attributed to the many intellectual, theoretical, and pedagogical
classroom: finding reliable and accessible scholarly editions, incorporating new writers into already-crowded syllabi, and dealing with entrenched notions of Romanticism. The contributors to this volume have undertaken, in the words of the editors, “the liberating and invigorating task of redrawing the landscape of Romantic poetry,” and in twenty-six essays they share their experiences and their
Approaches to Teaching Byron's Poetry
The inaugural volume in the MLA’s popular Approaches to Teaching World Literature series comprises bibliographic and instructional essays devoted to the first great English poet. The consultant editor, Florence H. Ridley, notes in her introduction, “As teachers we are faced with the challenge of enabling our students to see how Chaucer’s poetry passes the ultimate test of the world’s greatest
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