Books by E. S. Burt

Devoted to the work of Baudelaire, who, more than any other poet, inaugurated the era of modernity, this title features contributors who consider in various terms what time means in Baudelaire's work and what time can do, exploring the relationship between his writings and the moment in which they were composed.

Poetry's Appeal studies the reemergence of a viable poetry in the politicized culture of revolutionary and post-revolutionary France. It finds that poetry addresses history and the political through a disjunction between its illusory status as a song of private, lyrical intent and its actual state as a material inscription, inevitably public in character.