Flowers of Evil
A Selection
Charles Baudelaire author Christopher Mattison translator Jackson Mathews editor Marthiel Mathews editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published:1st Feb '55
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.
Flowers of Evil: A Selection contains 53 poems which the editors feel best represent the total work and which. in their opinion, have been most successfully rendered into English. The French texts as established by Yves Gérard Le Dantec for the Pléiade edition are printed en face. Included are Baudelaire's "Three Drafts of a Preface" and brief notes on the nineteen translators whose work is represented.
"He possessed, as it were, a profound intuition of the obstinate, amorphous contingency which is life..." -- Jean-Paul Sartre
ISBN: 9780811200066
Dimensions: 203mm x 132mm x 13mm
Weight: 205g
168 pages