Born in 1797, Heinrich Heine reshaped English poetry without writing a line in English. Through translation and song, his lyrical brevity, irony, and musical clarity taught English verse to balance feeling with skepticism—showing that poetry could sing sweetly while smiling knowingly at itself.
Birth of Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) – The European Lyric Who Recast English Romantic Irony
Comme photographe et comme personne, nous sommes souvent les témoins involontaires et indiscrets de plusieurs instants de vie pour lesquels l’intimité des gens semble compromise par l’impertinence de notre présence. Dans cette partie d’image captée lors de mon récent et bref séjour à Paris j’ai d’abord remarqué cette scène remarquable de désespoir et de tendresse […]
Fragment de vie dans un fragment d’image …
Born on November 7, 1913, Albert Camus gave English a new moral language — lucid, humane, and quietly rebellious. Through translation, his French voice reshaped English prose, teaching it to speak of absurdity, dignity, and revolt with clarity. In his words, truth became courage, and simplicity, strength.
Birth of Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) – The Philosopher-Poet of the Absurd
by Charles Baudelaire Two brand new translations of works by Charles Baudelaire. His seminal, controversial poetry collection, The Flowers of Evil, now acknowledged as one of the most important and influential poetry books ever – and Fanfarlo, Baudelaire’s only sustained work of prose fiction, an ironic self-portrait of a young man, a novella which shines […]
The Flowers of Evil and Fanfarlo
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