The poet Baudelaire wrote a poem called "The Albatross," about the "the vast birds of the seas," who glide majestically through the skies, but when they are on the ground are comically awkward. "These ...

Back to the Lakes. Acclaimed French poet Charles Baudelaire also wrote a poem titled “The Albatross,” which an English translation reads in part: “Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a ...

Acclaimed French poet Charles Baudelaire also wrote a poem titled “The Albatross,” which an English translation reads in part: “Often, to amuse themselves, the men of a crew.

Aloha readers, The killing of 13 albatrosses along the Kilauea bluffs last month has dampened Kaua‘i’s collective spirit. We all felt a loss, which is now evoked by their absence, as most of ...

The Tortured Poets Department – File Name: The Albatross. ... The name might refer to the bird, which maybe explains the water on the cover, and/or the poem L’Albatros by Charles Baudelaire, ...

“The Poet is not unlike this Prince of the Clouds,” Muldoon writes of the albatross. “Again and again he’s dragged down by the weight of those wings.” Baudelaire’s poem presents a ...

The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire. Wesleyan University Press, $24.95 (194pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6799-4 ...

“The great events I went in search of failed to reach my expectations," wrote Alfred de Vigny, a friend of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. Richard Sieburth’s translations of Baudelaire’s ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

In fact, the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) could easily qualify as the template goths (and other bohemians) aspire to. He often dressed in black, dyed his hair green, ...