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Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition

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Charles Baudelaire (Author), Norman R. Shapiro (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press (March 15, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0226039269
  • ISBN-13: 978-0226039268
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsBy far the best treatment Baudelaire has received in English
By A Customer on September 11, 1998
Format: Hardcover
Shapiro manages to capture Baudelaire's essence without sacrificing his form. These versions read like English poetry. They are the best I have read--and I have read them all, past and present. Highly recommended for admirers of Baudelaire and students of the craft (and art!) of literary translation.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe finest translation of Baudelaire in English
By TheIrrationalMan on June 21, 2001
Format: Hardcover
This bilingual edition (masterfully translated by Norman Shapiro) carefully transposes the French originals into a formal, poetic English idiom, which captures both the meaning and the music of Baudelaire, the fallen angel and champion of evil. Though conventional in terms of his metrics and poetic forms, Baudelaire is arguably the first great Modernist poet. One dives into the murky miasmata of these pages to discover a world of perverse pleasures, wrathful and sordid imagery and unregenerate vice glorified by one of its most eloquent spokesmen. Baudelaire, a tortured personality, in which profound guilt is contraposed with carnal lust, Satanism, delight in cruelty and a longing for hell, is one of the towering giants of modern European literature. His poetry is a bitter fruit that few can savour with impunity.
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3.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful Poems - Bad Translations
By MJC on March 18, 2012
Format: Paperback
Beautiful poems and imagery. Unfortunately, contrary to what others have commented, I found the English translation oftentimes so different from the original French that the rhythm and sense of the verse if lost.

Wonderful collection of Beaudelaire's works but would look for a better English translation.
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