Poems in Prose - Charles Baudelaire torrent

Category: Adults, Classic, Poetry
Language: English
Keywords: France

Written by Charles Baudelaire
Read by Denis Daly
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Translated by Arthur Symons, Joseph Shipley, and Frank Pearce Sturm

This collection was published posthumously in 1869 under the title of Petits Poèmes En Prose, but is also known as Le Spleen de Paris. A prime influence was Gaspard de la Nuit, the prose poem collection by Aloysius Bertrand.

Baudelaire described these short pieces as experiments, and also “confessions.” The poet was seeking to create “the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and without rhyme, subtle and staccato enough to follow the lyric motions of the soul, the wavering outlines of meditation, the sudden starts of the conscience.”

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
Release date: 09-30-22