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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 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

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.

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.

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 modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century.

It is not given to everyone to blend into the multitude: enjoying the crowd is an art, and only he can gain a stroke of vitality from it, at humanity's expense, whose good fairy at his cradle bequeathed... Read Full Overview

Les fleurs du mal Chef-d'oeuvre potique de Baudelaire, L'dition complte et illustre des Fleurs du mal se compose de 156 pomes disposs en six sections. Le talent de Baudelaire secoue le lecteur en mettant l'accent constant sur la recherche d'un idal existentialiste qui rejette... 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

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

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

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

Aparecidas inicialmente en 1859, Las flores del mal (Les fleurs du mal) recogen la pr ctica totalidad de la poes a en verso que escribiera Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), poeta que revolucion las bases y los resultados de la poes a francesa moderna

The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake... 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