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Baudelaire's literary criticism collection (posthumous 1868) — essays on Poe, Hugo, Gautier, and his contemporaries, developing the theory of pure poetry and the correspondence between the arts. If this brilliant literary criticism fascinated you, these books explore similar territory.
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Buy on AmazonCuriosités esthétiques
by Charles Baudelaire
The companion art criticism collection — the same aesthetic theory applied to painting rather than literature; reading both gives the complete Baudelairean aesthetic.
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Buy on AmazonLes Fleurs du mal
by Charles Baudelaire
The poetic practice — the theory of pure poetry that L'Art romantique develops in criticism is what Les Fleurs du mal embodies in verse; reading the criticism alongside the poetry is essential.
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Buy on AmazonThe Philosophy of Composition
by Edgar Allan Poe
The Poe essay that Baudelaire develops and responds to — the theory that poetry must be constructed rationally, effect-first, rather than spontaneously inspired, is the foundation of both Poe's practice and Baudelaire's championing of him.
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Buy on AmazonThe Poetic Principle
by Edgar Allan Poe
The companion Poe essay — the argument that poetry pursues pure beauty without moral intent is the theory that Baudelaire's 'Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe' develops into his own position.
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Buy on AmazonBiographia Literaria
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge's critical theory — the English parallel to L'Art romantique, which develops a comparably ambitious theory of the imagination and the poet's function from a different philosophical tradition.
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Buy on AmazonÉmaux et Camées
by Théophile Gautier
Gautier's most refined poetry — the work that embodies the theory of 'l'art pour l'art' (art for art's sake) that Baudelaire develops in his essay on Gautier; reading both shows the relationship between theory and practice.
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La Renaissance
by Walter Pater
Pater's great English aesthetic criticism — the most direct continuation of the Baudelairean tradition in English, developing the theory of the correspondence between the arts and the pursuit of pure aesthetic experience.
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Buy on AmazonIntentions
by Oscar Wilde
Wilde's essays on aesthetics — the most playful development of the Baudelairean critical tradition in English, taking the theory of pure art and the artist's superiority to morality to its furthest comic and intellectual extreme.
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