Les Hiboux I E The Owls Poem And Le Coucher Dun Soleil Romantique Poem Typed Manuscript Signed Tmss

by Clark Ashton Smith

$450 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

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Translations from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal. Uses the hybrid sonnet form favored by Smith -- two quatrains followed by a split sestet -- but with a tetrameter rhythm in the first poem and a hexameter in the second. The exotic diction and morbid attitude of Baudelaire made him a natural for Smith, while providing a certain Gallic steel that gives these collaborations a vigor not always present in Smith's original compositions. - Robert Eldridge. The first of these has seen numerous

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