This lecture will situate the prose poem within the context of literary and visual arts (photography) of the mid-nineteenth century. Charles Baudelaire was one of the most important French poets of the nineteenth century and a prolific art critic who left a mark on the world of art and literature globally.

Seth Whidden is a Professor of French Literature and Fellow of The Queen’s College of the University of Oxford.

Co-sponsored by: Art, English, French and Francophone Studies, Global Nineteenth-Century Studies, and the Office of the Dean of Faculty.

Campus community only, please.