Romantic poetry

Poetry: Edward Clarke

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

Love Denied: Baudelaire’s Une Charogne

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

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