Rhythm, illusion and the poetic idea : Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé

This thesis examines the concept of rhythm and its importance to the survival of the French poetic idea following Baudelaire’s formal and generic revolution. Part One situates he symbolic value of poetic rhythm in terms of a religious world view which crumbles with the mid-nineteenth century fall of...

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Main Author: Evans, David E.
Published: University of Edinburgh 2002
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.650066