In his controversial 1857 work, Les Fleurs du mal, the 19th-century decadent poet addresses the conflict of good and evil by rejecting conventional distinctions to pursue beauty in perversity. This volume features selections from Baudelaire’s masterpiece, perhaps the most influential French poetry ever written, in an inexpensive edition that invites readers to explore the remarkable sensuality, depths of thought, and feeling in one of the most original and influential books of the age.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
Original Language: French
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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So-so translation,
This review is from: Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evil" (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
I'm not a big fan of Baudelaire's verse poetry to begin with (his prose poetry is a different matter), and having read Flowers of Evil in French, I was not impressed with this translation. It contains most of the important poems from the original (The Albatross, Her Hair, An Invitation to Voyage, To a Malabar Girl, etc.), so this volume is a good introduction for people unfamiliar with Baudelaire. But someone who genuinely wants to study Baudelaire's poetry would be better off reading James McGowan's translation for Oxford World's Classics.
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This review is from: Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evil" (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
As a lover of poetry I found these poems to be a bit morbid for my taste.
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