Charles Baudelaire Christopher Isherwood W. H. Auden
One of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire (1821 1867) was also an important art critic and translator. In fact, his translations of Edgar Allan Poe's works are considered classics of French prose. Throughout much of his life, however, Baudelaire was dismissed as a vulgar drug addict preoccupied with sex and death. Prosecuted for obscenity and reeling from one financial disaster to another, he produced a number of literary works that went unrecognized during his lifetime. Perhaps the most significant collection of poetry published in Europe during...
One of the most influential French poets of the nineteenth century, Charles Baudelaire (1821 1867) was also an important art critic and translator. In...
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age and one...
Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse mast...
Charles Baudelaire Marthiel Mathews Jackson Mathews
In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by CharlesBaudelaire.
In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Char...
The poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied works in the French language. In this compelling new translation of Baudelaire's most famous collection, Keith Waldrop recasts the poet's original French alexandrines and other poetic arrangements into versets, a form that hovers between poetry and prose. Maintaining Baudelaire's complex view of sound and structure, Waldrop's translation mirrors the intricacy of the original without attempting to replicate its inimitable verse. The result is a...
The poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied w...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
Dieses verfluchte Buch (auf das ich sehr stolz bin) mu wohl recht dunkel sein, recht unverstndlich! Ich werde lange darunter zu leiden haben, da ich das Bse mit einigem Talent darzustellen wagte. Charles Baudelaire
Dieses verfluchte Buch (auf das ich sehr stolz bin) mu wohl recht dunkel sein, recht unverstndlich! Ich werde lange darunter zu leiden haben, da ich d...
Le spleen de Paris ist das letzte Werk des groen Wegbereiters der Moderne: 50 Prosagedichte, 1869, zwei Jahre nach Baudelaires Tod, erschienen. Ihr Thema ist die Kunst und das Leben, das Leben vor allem in der groen Stadt Paris, der Hauptstadt des 19. Jahrhunderts. Diese kurzen, stilistisch ausgefeilten und bis zu einer kaum sonst anzutreffenden Perfektion getriebenen Prosastcke, die nun in einer neuen bersetzung vorliegen, sind von einer zeitlosen Modernitt.
Le spleen de Paris ist das letzte Werk des groen Wegbereiters der Moderne: 50 Prosagedichte, 1869, zwei Jahre nach Baudelaires Tod, erschienen. Ihr Th...