Selected Poems

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, Carol Clark, Carol Clark

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French

Penguin
02 February 1996

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets; Penguin Black Classics

A selection of Baudelaire's explicit and unsettling poems

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire', flights of lyricism entwine with languorous eroticism, while prose poems such as 'La Chambre Double' deal with the agonies of artistic creation and mortality. With their startling combination of harsh reality and sublime beauty, formal ingenuity and revolutionary poetic language, these poems, including a generous selection from Les Fleurs du Mal, show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

By: Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
Edited by: Carol Clark
Translated by: Carol Clark
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780140446241
ISBN 10: 0140446249
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 02 February 1996
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821. He travelled to the Indian Ocean but returned prematurely and never again travelled far from Paris, until his journey to Belgium the year before his death, where he suffered a stroke. He lived a bohemian lifestyle, writing, publishing and lecturing to raise money for his rather lavish tastes. His collection of poetry Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) was prosecuted for indecency. Carol Clark is a Fellow and Tutor in French at Balliol College, Oxford.