Events
“Baudelaire and the Miracle of the Prose Poem”
Sep. 23, 2024, 5:30–6:45 p.m.
Location:
Class of ’51 Reading Room, Library
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.