Tag: Poetry
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Reading Baudelaire While Grouchy
I’ve been feeling a little grouchy lately. Perhaps it was not wise, then, to read Baudelaire. Baudelaire, the French Romantic poet, was the writer of the spleen–intellectual 19th century France’s emo. Really though. For Baudelaire, le spleen was about expressing “profound boredom and weariness about existence” (my translation from the French wikipedia entry). Etymologically, the…
George Altshuler 