Colloquium 36, “Birth of the Avant-Garde”
Reading assignments for Monday Sept. 10:
Poems by Baudelaire (Anchor Anthology of French Poetry):
“To the Reader” (Au Lecteur) pp. 17-18
“Correspondences” (Correspondances) pp. 21-22
“The Former Life” (La vie antérieure) p. 23-24
“The Vial” (Le Flacon) pp. 25-26
“Invitation to the Voyage” (L’invitation au voyage) pp. 26-27
“Music” (La musique) p. 28
“The Voyage” (Le voyage) pp. 45-50
“Meditation” (Recueillement) p. 55
NB. For French majors the original poems are at the end of the book.
Essays by Baudelaire: “Richard Wagner and Tannhäuser in Paris,” “The Life and Work of Eugène Delacroix” (Course Reader=R)
NB. For French majors these essays in the original language are in the French course reader.
Reading assignments for Wednesday Sept. 12:
Poems by Baudelaire (Anchor Anthology):
“The Swan” (Le cygne) pp. 32-33
“The Seven Old Men” (Les sept vieillards) pp. 34-35
“Little Old Women” (Les petites vieilles) pp. 36-38
“Morning Twilight” (Crépuscule du matin) pp. 40-41
“At One O’ Clock in the Morning” (A une heure du matin) pp. 56-57
“Anywhere Out of The World” (Anywhere Out of the World) pp. 58-59
Poems by Baudelaire (Penguin Anthology):
“The Blind (Les aveugles) pp. 154-55
“To A Passerby (A une passante) pp. 155-56
Essay by Baudelaire: ‘The Painter of Modern Life” (R)
Essay by Walter Benjamin: “A Lyric Poet in the Era of High Capitalism” (R)