The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem

A collection of original essays providing critical, international and cross-disciplinary approaches to the prose poem Provides the first international and comparative approach to the prose poemIncludes chapters on non-Western avatars of the genreCovers the history of the prose poem from Baudelaire to present The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloysius Bertrand’s Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen to its most important mod