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Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Professor Helen Abbott

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As Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Helen Abbott specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music. Her research explores ways of writing about word-music relationships in poetic language, in critical theories, and using digital methodologies. Her particular focus is the work of (post-) romantic and symbolist poets including Gautier, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, and Mallarmé. She is leading the Baudelaire Song Project.
 

This interview was conducted on 22nd November 2017 at Kings Place by Imogen Hamilton-Jones at Baudelaire–Botanist of the Sidewalk.

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