At Rudy’s Bar, Alassio (After Thomas Hardy) – O how could I order that tuna and chips, – And sip my beer and gaze at yachts and cruise ships Beyond the tops of changing booths and beach umbrella tips; – And glimpse and catch the sea’s soughing of old truths – Through exhaled smoke … Read more
Une Charogne (1859) is among the most important poems of the 19th century, containing all of its author’s ground-breaking aesthetic. Our own aesthetically challenged century could learn a lot from it, in terms of the aesthetic of rupture, spleen and discord. It is Baudelaire’s response, in a sense, to the early Romantics, such as John … Read more