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The flowers of evil
Charles Baudelaire
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Description for The flowers of evil
Paperback. Editor(s): Mathews, Marthiel; Mathews, Jackson. Translator(s): Mattison, Christopher. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 204 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 210.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1955
Publisher
New Directions
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811200066
SKU
V9780811200066
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Ref
99-15
About Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential. Marthiel Mathews was an American poet, translator of French poetry, and academic. Jackson Mathews was an American scholar, poet, and translator of French poetry. Christopher Mattison has translated and edited numerous works from ... Read more
Reviews for The flowers of evil
"He possessed, as it were, a profound intuition of the obstinate, amorphous contingency which is life..."
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Sartre