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1 online resource (269 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Description based on print version record. |
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An acclaimed and most unusual biography of Baudelaire, showing him ensnared by his passions for poetry, prostitutes, and drugs.A crucial link between romanticism and modernism, Charles Baudelaire is a pivotal figure in European literature and thought. His influence on modern poetry is immense. In the English language, where his literary reputation is less well known, it is his link with drug culture that gives him contemporary resonance. It is commonly known that Baudelaire used opium. Many writers have described him as being addicted to the drug, but none of his biographers, Frank Hilton argues, has fully understood the effect of opiate addiction on the personality and, in the case of Baudelaire, the extent to which it damaged his life and work. In this original contribution to Baudelaire studies Hilton contends that the drug is at the root of all Baudelaire's problems and in particular—something that constantly tormented him—his chronic inability to apply himself to any prolonged creative work. Unquestionably, there is significantly more to Baudelaire than his opium addiction. But a proper awareness of what it did to the poet helps to illuminate those puzzling aspects of his life and behavior that were not previously understood. Written with the general reader in mind, Baudelaire in Chains will give those who know little or nothing about him a comprehensive picture of his life. To those who know a great deal it will present him in an unexpected light. |
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Drug use.
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Poets, French -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Opium abuse.
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. |
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Usage des drogues. |
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Poètes français -- 19e siècle -- Biographies. |
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Opiomanie. |
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Letterkunde.
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Drugs.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. (OCoLC)fst00031368 |
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Drug abuse. (OCoLC)fst00898480
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Opium abuse. (OCoLC)fst01430932
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Poets, French. (OCoLC)fst01067894
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POETRY / Continental European
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Hilton, Frank, 1929- Baudelaire in chains. London ; Chester Springs : Peter Owen, 2004 (OCoLC)50270710 |
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9780720616545 (electronic bk.) |
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0720616549 (electronic bk.) |
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