
The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the...



In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering,...



Lappin's translations achieve remarkable semantic faithfulness without sacrificing the musicality of the verse. French text en face. This edition of Baudelaire includes an introduction, translator's forward, notes on each of the translations, and indexes and first lines in both...



This collection presents a new translation of the passionate and sometimes angry poems by the 19th-century French Romantic poet who speaks to the young at heart of any generation.