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The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching... Read Full Overview

The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching... Read Full Overview

Bilingual edition of the French masterpiece-with the definitive English translation.

Known to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city... Read Full Overview

A DUAL-LANGUAGE EDITION OF THE WORK THAT SCANDALIZED PARIS AND REINVENTED BEAUTY

Publie le 25 juin 1857, reedite dans des versions differentes en 1861, 1866 puis 1868, ce recueil est l'une des uvres majeures de la poesie moderne. Ses quelque 150 pieces, empreintes d'une nouvelle esthetique ou l'art poetique juxtapose une realite souvent crue - voire triviale... Read Full Overview

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to Baudelaire's full poetic... Read Full Overview

"In this atrocious book, I put all my heart" - BAUDELAIRE (1821-1867) Atrocious ? Indeed, you will discover all the perversion that lurks in "Les Fleurs du mal", including in the 6 poems condemned and censored by the courts for offending public morality. "Both deeply disturbing... Read Full Overview

A lifelong admirer of fine poetry, especially that of the great nineteenth century French poets, John E. Tidball has rendered into rhyming and metrical English verse Charles Baudelaire's seminal collection of poems 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. The translations mirror the original French... Read Full Overview

The bilingual, illustrated, and National Book Award-winning edition of Charles Baudelaire's masterpiece. The complete French text is accompanied with an English translation by Richard Howard.

Charles Baudelaire was born in Paris on April 21st, 1821, in an old turreted house, in the Rue Hautefeuille. He was the son of M. Baudelaire, the old friend of Condorcet and of Cabanis, a distinguished and well-educated man who retained the polished manners of the eighteenth... Read Full Overview

~~ COLLECTION MYTHICAL AUTHORS ~~ Cette deuxième édition de 1861 comprend la version originale du recueil, telle que Baudelaire l'a conçu, augmentée de 35 Poèmes Nouveaux, ainsi que les poèmes censurés. Découvrez ou redécouvrez l'une des oeuvres les plus emblématiques de la poésie... Read Full Overview

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867) was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, 'Les Fleurs du Mal' (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of... Read Full Overview

Beauty entwined with sin. Dark reflections on the soul. Can poetry reveal the hidden struggles of human desire and despair?

In Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), Charles Baudelaire examines the complex and often dark facets of human experience, from longing and decadence... Read Full Overview

Las flores del mal es una colecci n de poemas de Charles Baudelaire. Considerada la obra m xima de su autor, abarca casi la totalidad de su producci n po tica desde 1840 hasta la fecha de su primera publicaci n. Las Flores del mal es considerada una de las obras m s importantes... Read Full Overview

Inspired, seminal translations of one of the greatest poets of all time by Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Dillon, now available in a sleek new edition.

A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century--"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language" (T.S. Eliot)--Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil is a gritty, often perverse, exploration of the... Read Full Overview

The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching... Read Full Overview

This translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus, perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century, won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless... Read Full Overview

Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire... Read Full Overview

2022 Reprint of the 1954 edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition. Text in French and English on opposing pages. The Flowers of Evil, or Les Fleurs Du Mal in French, includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840... Read Full Overview