The flowers of evil = (Les fleurs du mal) /

"On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire's birth comes this stunning, landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century-"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry i...

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Main Author: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 (Author)
Other Authors: Poochigian, Aaron, 1973- (Translator), Handler, Daniel (writer of afterword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Flowers of Evil
  • To the Reader
  • SPLEEN AND THE IDEAL
  • 1. Benediction
  • 2. The Albatross
  • 3. Elevation
  • 4. Correspondences
  • 5. I love recalling those antique, nude times ...
  • 6. The Beacons
  • 7. The Sick Muse
  • 8. The Muse for Sale
  • 9. The Bad Monk
  • 10. The Fiend
  • 11. Bad Luck
  • 12. The Past Life
  • 13. Traveling Gypsies
  • 14. Man and the Sea
  • 15. Don Juan in Hell
  • 16. Punishment for Pride
  • 17. Beauty
  • 18. The Ideal
  • 19. The Giantess
  • 20. The Mask
  • 21. Hymn to Beauty
  • 21x. The Jewels
  • 22. Exotic Perfume
  • 23. Her Hair
  • 24. I love you as I love nocturnal skies ...
  • 25. Adulterated woman, you would screw the whole ...
  • 26. Sed non satiata
  • 27. When she, a billow of bejeweled clothing ...
  • 28. A Serpent Dancing
  • 29. A Carcass
  • 30. De profundis clamavi
  • 31. The Vampire
  • 31x. Lethe
  • 32. Once, sleeping with a horrid Jewish crone
  • 33. Postmortem Remorse
  • 34. The Cat
  • 35. Duellum
  • 36. The Balcony
  • 37. The Possessed
  • 38. A Phantom
  • 39. I dedicate this poem to you so that ...
  • 40. Semper eadem
  • 41. All Together
  • 42. What will you say tonight ...
  • 43. The Lit Torch
  • 43x. To One Who Is Too Cheerful
  • 44. Reversibility
  • 45. Confession
  • 46. The Spiritual Dawn
  • 47. The Harmony of Evening
  • 48. The Perfume Bottle
  • 49. Poison
  • 50. Cloudy Sky
  • 51. The Cat
  • 52. The Beautiful Ship
  • 53. The Invitation to the Voyage
  • 54. The Irreparable
  • 55. A Conversation
  • 56. Autumn Song
  • 57. To a Madonna
  • 58. Song of the Afternoon
  • 59. Sisina
  • 60. Franciscae meae laudes
  • 61. To a Creole Lady
  • 62. Moesta et errabunda
  • 63. The Revenant
  • 64. Autumn Sonnet
  • 65. The Sorrows of the Moon
  • 66. The Cats
  • 67. The Owls
  • 68. The Pipe
  • 69. Music
  • 70. The Burial
  • 71. A Fantastical Engraving
  • 72. The Happy Corpse
  • 73. The Cask of Hate
  • 74. The Cracked Bell
  • 75. Spleen (I)
  • 76. Spleen (II)
  • 77. Spleen (III)
  • 78. Spleen (IV)
  • 79. Obsession
  • 80. The Taste for Nothingness
  • 81. The Alchemy of Grief
  • 82. Reflected Horror
  • 83. Heautontimoroumenos
  • 84. The Irremediable
  • 85. The Clock
  • PARISIAN SCENES
  • 86. Landscape
  • 87. The Sun
  • 88. To a Red-Haired Beggar Girl
  • 89. The Swan
  • 90. The Seven Old Men
  • 91. The Little Old Ladies
  • 92. The Blind
  • 93. To a Woman Passing
  • 94. Skeleton Laborers
  • 95. Twilight
  • 96. Gambling
  • 97. Danse Macabre
  • 98. The Love of Lying
  • 99. I still recall the little whitewashed lodging where ...
  • 100. Think of my kind old nurse you once were jealous of ...
  • 101. Mists and Rains
  • 102. Parisian Dream
  • 103. Morning Twilight
  • WINE
  • 104. The Soul of Wine
  • 105. The Ragpickers' Wine
  • 106. The Murderer's Wine
  • 107. The Loner's Wine
  • 108. The Lovers' Wine
  • FLOWERS OF EVIL
  • 109. Destruction
  • 110. A Martyr
  • 110x. Lesbos
  • 110xx. The Damned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta
  • 111. The Damned Women
  • 112. The Two Good Sisters
  • 113. The Fountain of Blood
  • 114. Allegory
  • 115. The Beatrice
  • 115x. The Metamorphoses of the Vampire
  • 116. A Voyage to Cythera
  • 117. Love and the Skull
  • REVOLT
  • 118. Saint Peter's Denial
  • 119. Abel and Cain
  • 120. The Litanies of Satan
  • DEATH
  • 121. The Lovers' Death
  • 122. The Death of the Poor
  • 123. The Death of Artists
  • 124. The End of the Day
  • 125. The Dream of an Odd Man.