The flowers of evil

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FLOWERS OF EVIL
A SELECTION
Edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews BY CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has for over a hundred years now opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modern poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.
Here in this volume are selections from his Fleurs du Mal as chosen by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews from their complete bilingual edition published by New Directions in 1955— "undoubtedly the best single collection of Baudelaire's verse in English" (St. Louis Post Dispatch).
Selected Flowers of Evil contains 53 poems which the' Mathews feel best represent the total work and which, in their opinion, have been most successfully rendered " into English. The French texts as established by Yves... Tovább

Fülszöveg

FLOWERS OF EVIL
A SELECTION
Edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews BY CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has for over a hundred years now opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modern poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.
Here in this volume are selections from his Fleurs du Mal as chosen by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews from their complete bilingual edition published by New Directions in 1955— "undoubtedly the best single collection of Baudelaire's verse in English" (St. Louis Post Dispatch).
Selected Flowers of Evil contains 53 poems which the' Mathews feel best represent the total work and which, in their opinion, have been most successfully rendered " into English. The French texts as established by Yves Gérard Le Dantec for the Pléiade edition are printed en face. Included are Baudelaire's "Three Drafts of a Preface" and brief notes on the nineteen translators whose work is represented.
[Other ND Baudelaire paperbooks: Baudelaire (a critical study) by Jean-Paul Sartre, NDP233, $1.75; Paris Spleen (prose poems) by Baudelaire, NDP294, $1.75.]
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