About this book
Brand-new translation by acclaimed translator Anthony Mortimer here presented in a dual language edition. 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 transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in agreat metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right.
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Table of contents
- The Flowers of Evil
- Wreckage
- Poems Added to the Third Edition of The Flowers of Evil
- Three Early Poems
- Note on the Text
- Notes
- Extra Material on Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil
- Untitled
- Les Fleurs du Mal
- Select Bibliography
- Index of Titles (English)
- Index of Titles (French)
