Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin) [Paperback]

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (Author), Carol Clark (Editor), Robert Sykes (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0140446443 | ISBN-13: 978-0140446449 | Publication Date: June 1, 1998

Perhaps the most explosively original mind of his century, Charles Baudelaire has proved profoundly influential well beyond the borders of nineteenth-century France. Writers from Lord Alfred Douglas to Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Aldous Huxley to Seamus Heaney, from Arthur Symons to John Ashbery, from Basil Bunting to Robert Lowell, have all attempted to transmit in English his psychological and sexual complexity, his images of urban alienation. This superb addition to the Poets in Translation series brings together the translations of his poetry and prose poems that best reveal the different facets of Baudelaire's personality: the haughtily defiant artist, the tormented bohemian, the savage yet tender lover, and the celebrant of strange and haunted cityscapes.

Editorial Reviews

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After The Deluge
The Albatross
Alchemy Of Suffering
All, All
Anywhere Out Of The World
Artist Unknown
At One O'clock In The Morning
Autumnal
The Balcony
Baudelaire's Music
The Beautiful Ship
Benediction
The Blind
A Carcass
The Cat
Cats
Confession
Correspondences
Correspondences
Correspondences
Correspondences
The Cracked Bell
Dawn
Dejection
Don Juan In Hell
Elevation
The Enemy
Exotic Scent
The Flowers Of Evil: Correspondences
The Flowers Of Evil: Spleen
A Former Life
The Giantess
Gypsies On The Road
The Happy Corpse
Harmonie Du Soir
Harmonie Du Soir
Hymn To Beauty
I Have More Memories Than If I Had Lived A Thousand Years
I Have Not Forgotten
I Offer You This Verse
Ideal Love
Ill-starred
The Insatiable
The Invitation To The Voyage
Invitation To The Voyage
The Irremediable
L'invitation Au Voyage
La Beaute
La Beaute
La Chevelure
La Flacon
Landscape
Landscape
Litany To Satan
The Mercenary Muse
Moesta Et Errabunda
More Memories Than The Fossils Of The Ages
The Muse For Hire
Obsession
On The Islets Of Langerhans (king Midas In Reverse)
Owls
The Possessed
Reversibility
Sed Non Satiata
Sois Sage O Ma Douleur
The Sphinx
The Spiritual Dawn
Spleen
Spleen
Spleen
Spleen
Spleen I
Spleen Ii
Spleen Iii
Strange Perfune
The Sun
Suppose My Name
Sympathetic Horror
The Taste For Nothingness
The Thirst For The Void
To The Reader
Un Fantome
Undulant And Opalescent The Robes
The Vampire
When, A Great Manhole Lid, The Heavy Sky
You'd Sleep With Anything
The Digging Skeleton; After Baudelaire
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Penguin Classics (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140446443
• ISBN-13: 978-0140446449
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,182,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best way to meet Baudelaire, March 12, 2004

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This review is from: Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin) (Paperback)

This is the book that introduced me to Penguin's wonderful Poets in Translation series. I've been hooked ever since. With brief introductions placing the translator in proper context, the anthology moves through all Baudelaire's major poems, dwelling with multiple translations and comparisons to the original on a few key favorites.

If you can't read French (and believe me I can't), this is the next best thing. By seeing Baudie from multiple perspectives, translated over several generations, you really get a better sense of his poems than any one translator could give you. On top of that, the editors do a great job of giving minimal-but-effective background material.

Should you choose to explore further, you are armed with knowledge of how each translator approached his or her task. This is invaluable. It lead me, for example, to F.P. Sturm's translations, which I never otherwise would have known about. Excellent! 5/5 stars.

5.0 out of 5 stars Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin), January 27, 2010

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This review is from: Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin) (Paperback)

Baudelaire in English, still romantic and a dream of inspirations for all whose hearts are fain to the virtues of Meaning chiefly when it can be felt in real words which flowed out a romantic heart and into posterity. In life the poor fellow was always plagued by just ordinary but rather too often "bad luck" however he could write his heart out like no other... And that is why I have always loved Baudelaire... I recommend his works in any language, in any age or time! A bit of Baudelaire can always balance our ways of seeing our own world and allow us the wings of his inspiration.

4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars translation in cultural perspective, February 15, 2002

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wye fok (Suzhou, China) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin) (Paperback)

Prof Carol Clark and Prof Robert Sykes in their 40-page introduction put the English translation of Baudelaire in a cultural perspective. Excellent example of translation studies.