Flowers of Evil

And Other Works

Charles Baudelaire

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Dover
01 May 1992

Poetry; Languages & ESL; Reader; French - Bilingual Reader; French - Reader; French - Languages

Series: Foreign Language Study French: A Dual Language Book

When Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was not until 1949 that the French courts removed the ban originally imposed on Baudelaire's masterpiece.

Today, Flowers of Evil is regarded as the poet's greatest work and perhaps the most influential book of French poetry ever written. In assessing Baudelaire's importance in literature, Wallace Fowlie, distinguished scholar, critic and Baudelaire specialist, describes him as ""the poet and thinker of our age, of what we like to call modernity.""

This handsome dual-language edition combines Flowers of Evil with a selection of the poet's other significant compositions, including prose poems from Spleen of Paris, a poignant collection reflecting Baudelaire's pessimism towards the teeming city and his compassion for its less successful inhabitants. Readers will also find critical essays on art, music and literature, including a discussion of Edgar Allan Poe's poetry; and Baudelaire's personal letters to his mother and female acquaintances. Edited and translated by Professor Fowlie, this authoritative edition contains excellent line-by-line English translations with the original French text on the facing pages.

Students of French language and literature as well as poetry lovers with some knowledge of French will welcome this volume by one of the greatest European poets of the 19th century.

By: Charles Baudelaire
Imprint: Dover
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 365g
ISBN: 9780486270920
ISBN 10: 0486270920
Series: Foreign Language Study French: A Dual Language Book
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 May 1992
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Introduction Les Fleurs du Mal / Flowers of EviI Au lecteur / To the Reader Benediction / The Blessing L'Albatros / The Albatross Elevation / Elevation Correspondances / Correspondences Les Phares / Beacons L'Ennemi / The Enemy Le Guignon / III Luck La Vie Anterieure / Former Life L'Homme et la Mer / Man and the Sea Don Juan aux Enfers / Don Juan in Hell La Beaute / Beauty La Geante / The Giantess Le Masque / The Mask Hymne a la Beaute / Hymn to Beauty La Chevelure / Her Hair ""Je t'adore a l'egal"" / ""I Worship You"" "" Une Charogne / A Carrion De profundis clamavi / De Profundis Clamavi Duellum / Duellum Le Balcon / The Balcony ""Je te donne ces vers""/""Give You These Verses"" "" Semper Eadem / Semper Eadem ""Que diras-tu?"" / 'What Will You Say?"" "" L'Aube spirituelle / Dawn of the Spirit Harmonie du Soir / Evening Harmony L'Invitation au Voyage / An Invitation to Voyage L'Irreparable / Irreparable Chant d'Automne / Song of Autumn Moesta et Errabunda / Moesta et Errabunda Les Chats / Cats La Cloche felee / The Broken Bell Spleen / Spleen L 'Heautontimoroumenos / Heautontimoroumenos L'Irremediable / The Irremediable Le Cygne / The Swan ""La servante au grand coeur"" / The Warm-Hearted Servant"" "" Reve parisien / Parisian Dream Le Crepuscule du Matin / Morning Twilight La Destruction / Destruction Une Martyre / A Martyr Un Voyage a Cythere / A Voyage to Cytnera La Mort des Amants / Death of the Lovers La Mort des Artistes / Death of the Artists Le Voyage / The Voyage Lesbos / Lesbos Le Jet d'Eau / The Fountain A une Malabaraise / To a Malabar Girl Epigraphe pour un livre condamne / Epigraph for a Condemned Book Recueillement / Meditation Le Gouffre / The Abyss Les Plaintes d'un Icare / Complaints of an Icarus Le Spleen de Paris / Spleen of Paris L'Etranger / The Stranger Le Confiteor de l'Artiste / The Artist's Confiteor Le Chambre double / The Double Room Chacun sa Chimere / Each of Us Has His Chimera Le Mauvais Vitrier / The Wicked Maker of Window Glass Les Foules / Crowds Le Vieux Saltimbanque / The Old Clown Le Joujou du Pauvre / The Poor Boy's Toy La Corde / The Rope Le Thyrse / The Thyrsus Enivrez-vous / Intoxication Le Miroir / The Mirror Le Port / The Harbor Any Where Out of the World / Any Where Out of the World Curiosites Esthetiques / Critical Writings A quoi bon la critique? / What Is the Use of Criticism? Qu'est-ce que le romantisme? / What Is Romanticism? Du chic et du poncif / On the Chic and the Poncif De l'Heroisme de la Vie moderne / On the Heroism of Modern Life L'Art mnemonique / Mnemonic Art Le Dandy / The Dandy Eloge du Maquillage / ln Praise of Make-Up Critique d' Art / Art Criticism L'Oeuvre et la Vie d'Eugene Delacroix / The Work and the Life of Eugene Delacroix Critique Musicale / Music Criticism Richard Wagner et Tannhauser a Paris / Richard Wagner and Tannhauser in Paris Critique Litteraire / Literary Criticism Petrus Borel (L'Art Romantique) / Petrus Borel (Romantic Art) ""Edgar Poe: sa vie, ses oeuvres / Edgar Poe: His Life and Works "" Mon coeur mis a nu / My Heart Laid Bare Lettres / Letters a Madame Marie Daubrun / To Madame Marie Daubrun a Madame Aupick / To Madame Aupick a Madame Sabatier / Ta Madame Sabatier Notes Glossary Bibliography"