Baudelaire in Song
1880-1930
Helen Abbott
Reviews and Awards
"Her book deserves patient reading as an extensive experiment in new ways of reading." -- Susan Blood, H-France Review
"Author Helen Abbott offers up much more intriguing if less generally recognizable sets of songs from France, Russia, and Austria that span a fifty-year period of intense and broad social and technical change." -- Seán Hand, French Studies
"Helen Abbott's new book is an impressive and important contribution to Baudelaire studies and to the emerging field of text and music criticism and theory." -- Anthony Zielonka, Nineteenth-Century French Studies
"Its first three chapters contextualise Baudelaire's poetry within the world of song (with a helpful overview of song types), discuss how to analyse poetry-as-song, and explore the consequences of "repackaging" Baudelaire's poems as songs. Each chapter will be of use to lecturers and students exploring the manifold ways in which words and music can be approached, as will the appendix tabulating "shared critical language used in adaptation, translation, and word/music theory" -- Laura Tunbridge, Fontes artis musicae