By examining nearly sixty works, the author traces the prehistory of the French prose poem, demonstrating that the disquiet of some eighteenth-century writers w

For all its recent popularity among poets and critics, prose poetry continues to raise more questions than it answers. How have prose poems been identified as s

Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the acade

Poems in Prose is a lyrical collection by Charles Baudelaire. Renowned for his exceedingly provocative, and often gloomy poesy, Baudelaire's life was crammed wi

From the introduction by Michael Hamburger: "Baudelaire's prose poems were written at long intervals during the last twelve or thirteen years of his life. The p