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Baudelaire has been described as "a Prometheus who celebrated the vultures that plucked at his spiritual entrails" and as "a hermit of the Brothel". He has been compared to Dante, to Laforgue, to Swinburne, to Blake, and to a long, long list of other poets. But such clever descriptive phrases...
Mr. Shanks' biography traces Bandelaire's life and work from his pre-natal influences to the grave. Every step of the way the author follows the guidance of Baudelaire's poems or letters. The biography has the ring of authenticity on every page, a the same time it has all...
If one has any fault to find with Mr. Shanks it is in his use of "the defective method" so popular now with teachers of literature. At times it seems that he is a little too anxious to discover just what particular poems were influenced by a particular does of...
Though the precise origin of the noun gigolo (zhi-go-lo) is obscure, it probably derives from the verb gigotter "to kick about," the adjective gigotté "strong sinewed'' and the noun gigots "legs," or "shanks."
Serenade (Adolphe Menjou). It is curious that the cinema, an industry only recently become civilized, should already have produced the rarest and most delicate flower of decadent aristocracy, an example of supreme elegance. It would be unfair to say that Dandy Menjou is an actor as well as an example...