Hi everyone! Here you will find your reading selections for Wednesday’s class.
You will read the following poems from the Anthology (Volume E) and two Baudelaire poems from an online source (the link is below)
Charles Baudelaire
From Les Fleurs du mal (In your anthology)
“To The Reader”
“A Carcass”
You will also read two of Baudelaire’s prose poems which I have given you here in a word document:
I would like you to read (and print and bring to class):
“The Crowd”
“The Thyrsus”
Rimbaud:
Illuminations (out of Anthology; translated by poet John Ashbery)
“The Bridges”
“Barbarian”
Mallarmé
“The Afternoon of a Faun”
“Saint”
You will find that these poems are very different from the Romantic poetry we’ve just read. We are entering into an age of modernity and things are starting to shift so keep this in mind as you read. Remember to annotate, take notes, and bring questions with you to class!