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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

The celebrated, National Book Award-winning, translation of Baudelaire's masterpiece. "It is the English edition to acquire."--Washington Post

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

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

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 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.

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

"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

"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

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

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.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare's... 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

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

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