Mesmeric Revelation
work by Poe
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translation by Baudelaire
- In Charles Baudelaire: Maturity and decline of Charles Baudelaire
His translation of Poe’s Mesmeric Revelation appeared as early as July 1848, and thereafter translations appeared regularly in reviews before being collected in book form in Histoires extraordinaires (1856; “Extraordinary Tales”) and Nouvelles Histoires extraordinaires (1857; “New Extraordinary Tales”), each preceded by an important critical introduction by Baudelaire. These…
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