At the Louvre : poems by 100 contemporary world poets /
"The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du Périer", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York Review Books,
[2024]
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| Series: | New York Review Books poets.
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| Summary: | "The Louvre palace and museum belong to the history of poetry. Malherbe, in his most famous poem, "Consolation to Monsieur Du Périer", spoke of the "barriers of the Louvre". Baudelaire, in "The Swan", declares: "Also in front of this Louvre an image oppresses me. " This entire masterpiece could be read as an invocation of a palace-museum in metamorphosis in the heart of a Paris in transformation, of a 19th century that is being invented with the museum. Apollinaire was also involved in the Louvre, and many others after them"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 201 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781681379012 1681379015 |