The Complete Poetry and Translations Volume 3: The Flowers of Evil and Others

by Charles Baudelaire, David E. Schultz, Clark Ashton Smith

In addition to being a prolific and innovative poet in his own right, Clark Ashton Smith was a noted translator of French and Spanish poetry. Teaching himself French in the mid-1920s, Smith undertook the ambitious program of translating the entirety of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) into English. Over the next several years he succeeded in translating all but six of the 157 poems that comprised the definitive (1868) edition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614980470
• ISBN13: 9781614980476
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Hippocampus Press
• Length: 446 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"