... how the poem unites the key elements of danse macabre —skeletal imagery, musical procession, grisly humor—with apprehensions of the absent mother, an approach founded upon but aesthetically distinct from original symboliste works such as Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal , or the work of American...

...Shawn Normandin The title of John Ashbery’s 1965 poem “Clepsydra” alludes to Charles Baudelaire’s “L’Horloge,” from Les Fleurs du mal , and reading Ashbery’s poem as a response to “L’Horloge” helps refine our understanding of his place in literary history, a process this essay pursues...

... own being” ( E 3:p6, 283). 3 See the “Spleen et Idéal” subsection of Baudelaire’s Les fleurs du mal (1857), which explores this entanglement of the ideal and the artificial. 2 In the pages that follow, I use the word “morbid” in its etymological sense, from the Latin morbus...

... . Wir Müssen wahre Sätze finden: Gespräche und Interviews . Munich : R. Pier . Bachmann Ingeborg . 1994 . Songs in Flight: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann . Translated by Filkins Peter . New York : Marsilio . Baudelaire Charles . 1982 . Les fleurs du mal...