{"product_id":"baudelaire-charles-christopher-isherwood-translator-w-h-auden-introduction-intimate-journals","title":"BAUDELAIRE, Charles, Christopher ISHERWOOD ( translator ), W.H. AUDEN ( introduction ). Intimate Journals.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003eBaudelaire was man enough for damnation (T. S. Eliot).\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBAUDELAIRE, Charles, Christopher ISHERWOOD (\u003ci\u003etranslator\u003ci\u003e), W.H. AUDEN (\u003ci\u003eintroduction\u003ci\u003e).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Intimate Journals. \u003ci\u003eLondon: Methuen and Co\u003c\/i\u003e. 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, in the unclipped dustwrapper priced 25s. Net to the front flap; pp. xiv, 71, [1]; six collotype plates (including frontispiece) with tissue guards, one drawing, upper edges gilt; light rubbing to spine tips, wrapper variously nicked and rubbed to edges and extremities with a little loss to spine tips and corners, neat contemporary ownership name to front free endpaper; a near fine copy in very good wrapper.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition thus, one of 750 copies, with a new introduction by W. H. Auden.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eIntimate Journals\u003c\/i\u003e are made up from papers collected and published after Baudelaire's death. If few entries in the \u003ci\u003eJournals\u003c\/i\u003e are concerned with poetry, these reflections on love, religion, politics, are very much the work of a poet. In his introduction, W. H. Auden (who loved lists) suggests they can be read in “four different ways at once: as the observations of a human spirit […]; as the observations of a poet […] as distinguished from men with other gifts and professions; as the observations of a Frenchman of the nineteenth century; and as the observations of a French poet of the nineteenth century.” Often cryptic, the fragments repay the attention they demand; as Chrostopher Isherwood writes in his preface, “[t]he more you study these \u003ci\u003eIntimate Journals\u003c\/i\u003e, the better you will understand them.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsherwood's translation was originally issued in a limited edition by The Blackamore Press in 1930 (T. S. Eliot provided the the introduction). This edition, limited to 750 copies and with Auden's introduction, appeared in 1949.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2123122\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56881669767545,"sku":"2123122","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2123122.jpg?v=1774028460","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/baudelaire-charles-christopher-isherwood-translator-w-h-auden-introduction-intimate-journals","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}