Edgar Allan Poe: sa vie et ses ouvrages

by Charles Baudelaire

Book Overview

The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire's first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as the preface of the first volume of his translation of Poe's tales, Histoires extraordinaires. This study was significant especially in the area of Franco-American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442651709
• ISBN13: 9781442651708
• Release Date: December 1973
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"