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FREN 4682

Baudelaire and Poetic Modernity

Course Description

Disciplines

Cultures & Societies of the World , Artistic, Interpretive, & Philosophical Inquiry

An exploration of a selection of poetry and prose works by Baudelaire to gain an in-depth understanding of one of the most celebrated poets in Western literature. Through close readings, we will examine poetry¿s relation to beauty and suffering, the structuring and de-structuring of poetic form, and the ethics of poetic modernity in Baudelaire in order to reflect more generally on what poetry affords us in life.

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