This edition contains new translations by Rosemary Lloyd of an early novella by Baudelaire and all his prose poetry. The novella, La Fanfarlo is a mocking study

Baudelaire is one of the major innovators in French literature. His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its

Demonstrating the significance of ironic otherness for the theory and functioning of Baudelaire's prose poems, and for the genre of the prose poem itself, this