Compiles the finest English translations of Baudelaire's poems on the nature and source of beauty and goodness
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811211177
Category: Poetry
Page: 448
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Compiles the finest English translations of Baudelaire's poems on the nature and source of beauty and goodnessFinally in 1868 a third edition was published posthumously. This collection added an additional fourteen poems selected by two of Baudelaire's friends yet again excluded the six censored poems.
Author: Charles P. Baudelaire
Publisher: Digireads.Com
ISBN: 1420950363
Category: Poetry
Page: 222
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Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" or "The Flowers of Evil" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned from subsequent publication. The notoriety caused by this scandal would ultimately work in the author's favor causing the initial publication to sell out, thus prompting the publication of another edition. The second edition was published in 1861, it included an additional thirty-five poems, with the exclusion of the six poems censored by the French government. Finally in 1868 a third edition was published posthumously. This collection added an additional fourteen poems selected by two of Baudelaire's friends yet again excluded the six censored poems. Literary scholars generally agree that, while well-meaning, the addition of these poems in the third edition disrupt the structure intended by Baudelaire and thus the 1861 edition should be considered as the definitive edition. In this volume we reproduce that 1861 edition along with the six censored poems in the original French and in an English translation by William Aggeler. Rich with symbolism, "The Flowers of Evil" is rightly considered a classic of the modernist literary movement. Its themes of decadence and eroticism seek to exhibit Baudelaire's criticism of the Parisian society of his time.Handsome edition includes great French poet's controversial work, Les Fleurs du Mal, plus prose poems from "Spleen of Paris," critical essays on art, music, and literature, and personal letters.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486121581
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 304
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Handsome edition includes great French poet's controversial work, Les Fleurs du Mal, plus prose poems from "Spleen of Paris," critical essays on art, music, and literature, and personal letters.Translates seventy-three poems from Baudelaire's famous collection, presenting the French originals and translations in facing-page format.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226039250
Category: Poetry
Page: 209
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Translates seventy-three poems from Baudelaire's famous collection, presenting the French originals and translations in facing-page format.For the first time, editor and translator John E. Tidball has taken the additional poems from the 1868 posthumous edition of 'Les Fleurs du Mal' and assigned them new positions within the collection as a whole.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 1533212430
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Page: 474
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This fully revised and amended edition of Baudelaire's masterpiece of lyric poetry contains all of the poems from all three editions of Les Fleurs du Mal, with both the original French texts and new English verse translations on the facing page. The translations preserve both the original versification and the intrinsic sense of each individual poem.In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Double. "Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford.
Author: Brian Stableford
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 9781434411679
Category: Fiction
Page: 238
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In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles," two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the fourth Wildside Double. "Les Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the year 2550, where premediated murder is supposedly impossible, a serial killer begins attacking very old men with specially bred plants that eat them from the inside out, creating the bizarre "flowers of evil" ("les fleurs du mal"). Biotech artist Oscar Wilde teams with UN detectives Charlotte Holmes and Hal Watson to unravel this futuristic nightmare. A Hugo Award finalist in the Novella category. "The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution," by Brian Stableford. In the world of the future, the latest rage is the creation of "Undead" personality simulations to place within the tombstones of the recently departed. But when a cluster of new monuments is vandalized, cemetery Chief Security Officer Tann Hicks must find the perpetrators and stop the crimes. Are the sims really dead? As the controversy over the Undead grows, with religious fanatics lining up against right-to-life advocates, Tann finds himself at the center of a growing political and media storm.Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.
Author: William J. Thompson
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826512976
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 241
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Surprisingly, there are few book-length studies available that approach the poems in Charles Baudelaire’s collection on an individual basis. Understanding "Les Fleurs du Mal" fills this gap by providing students and serious readers with clear, scholarly "explications" to many of the most widely read of Baudelaire's poems.Over two decades in the making, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), is a complete collection of the works of Charles Baudelaire, translated here into English.
Author: Lloyd Grove
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 9781662425929
Category: Fiction
Page: 602
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Over two decades in the making, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil), is a complete collection of the works of Charles Baudelaire, translated here into English.This Bilingual English - French edition provides the original text by Baudelaire and its English translation by Cyril Scott. The initial publication of the book was arranged in six thematically segregated sections: 1.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 9782322144181
Category: Poetry
Page: 144
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Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. This Bilingual English - French edition provides the original text by Baudelaire and its English translation by Cyril Scott. The initial publication of the book was arranged in six thematically segregated sections: 1. Spleen et Idéal (Spleen and Ideal) 2. Tableaux parisiens (Parisian Scenes) 3. Le Vin (Wine) 4. Fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) 5. Révolte (Revolt) 6. La Mort (Death) Baudelaire dedicated the book to the poet Théophile Gautier, describing him as a parfait magicien des lettres françaises ("a perfect magician of French letters"). The foreword to the volume, Au Lecteur ("To the Reader"), identifying Satan with the pseudonymous alchemist Hermes Trismegistus. The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. These poems were "Lesbos"; "Femmes damnées (À la pâle clarté)" (or "Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer...)"); "Le Léthé" (or "Lethe"); "À celle qui est trop gaie" (or "To Her Who Is Too Joyful"); "Les Bijoux" (or "The Jewels"); and " Les "Métamorphoses du Vampire" (or "The Vampire's Metamorphoses"). These were later published in Brussels in a small volume entitled Les Épaves (Scraps or Jetsam). On the other hand, upon reading "The Swan" (or "Le Cygne") from Les Fleurs du mal, Victor Hugo announced that Baudelaire had created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder, a new thrill) in literature. In the wake of the prosecution, a second edition was issued in 1861 which added 35 new poems, removed the six suppressed poems, and added a new section entitled Tableaux Parisiens. A posthumous third edition, with a preface by Théophile Gautier and including 14 previously unpublished poems, was issued in 1868.The Classic by Baudelaire in a new translation by Eric Gans
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher:
ISBN: 1941550428
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Page: 584
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Already considered by some critics as the definitive translation to date of Baudelaire's seminal work of world poetry, this dual language book, published in 2015, contains facing page translations of the complete text of the 1861 edition, with the six poems which were banned in 1857 also included after the main text. 'Les Fleurs du Mal' marked an important turning point in the history of world poetry, providing a crucial link between romanticism and modernism. This brand new translation, completed in 2014, preserves the metre and rhyme scheme of each original poem. Some of the poems are very beautiful, while others are not for the faint-hearted. Taken as a whole, they convey the 'spleen' or 'ennui' which Baudelaire felt so keenly, a state of mind that echoes the 'mal du siecle' of early 19th century France."Charles Baudelaire’s classic and controversial Les Fleurs du Mal explored a poetic landscape of urban decadence and dark beauty. This new translation captures the sound and the feeling of the original as none has done before.
Author: Christopher Thompson
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9780595124954
Category: Poetry
Page: 384
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Charles Baudelaire’s classic and controversial Les Fleurs du Mal explored a poetic landscape of urban decadence and dark beauty. This new translation captures the sound and the feeling of the original as none has done before.And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur's striking black and white monotypes in one elegant edition.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 0879234628
Category: Poetry
Page: 365
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Presents the first American translation of the complete text of Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork and includes the complete original French texts for easy comparisonJan Owen's masterly translation captures all of Baudelaire's passion and anguish in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the ...
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Publisher: Arc Publications
ISBN: 9781908376428
Category: Poetry
Page: 192
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Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of Baudelaire's passion and anguish in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, 'The Voyage', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet 'Meditation'.Le classique de la littérature par Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, est publié ici à nouveau pour le lecteur enthousiaste.
Author: CHARLES. BAUDELAIRE
Publisher:
ISBN: 1387784684
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Le classique de la littérature par Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, est publié ici à nouveau pour le lecteur enthousiaste. La belle poésie, typique de l'époque moderniste, est inclus sans abrègement. Les six sections sont les suivantes: Spleen et Idéal Tableaux Parisiens Le Vin Fleurs du mal Révolte La Mort Au moment de la publication initiale dans les années 1860, Baudelaire a été accusé d'avoir violé les lois de censure. Il a été sommairement condamné à une amende, avec six poèmes incriminés ont été retirés de la deuxième édition. Cependant, ils ont été remplacés par trente-cinq nouveaux poèmes, qui cherchaient à préserver la profondeur thématique. L'éditeur est fier d'apporter le texte original pour le public moderne. Les Fleurs du Mal a bénéficié d'un grand nombre d'adaptations pour plus de cent ans, suscitant l'inspiration pour ses audacieuses, versets palpitants.Through a strategic selection of poems constituting a 'constellation', a formal pattern of mutually illuminating parts, the analysis aims to show that form and theme are indissoluble: that each movement in the texture of the verse, each ...
Author: Peter Broome
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042005068
Category: Social Science
Page: 541
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This major new study of Baudelaire is a journey into the secret language of Les Fleurs du Mal: the expressive pliabilities of its verse-forms and syntax, the fluctuations of its rhythms, its significant sonorities, its metaphorical figures and dynamic image-patterns, its network of nerves and trigger-points, its shifting underground of parallels and contrasts, analogies and antitheses. Through a strategic selection of poems constituting a 'constellation', a formal pattern of mutually illuminating parts, the analysis aims to show that form and theme are indissoluble: that each movement in the texture of the verse, each pulse, each rise and fall, each intensification or release, not only aids and abets the thrust of the poet's inspiration but is moulding and, in the end, creating the subtleties of sense, which cannot exist but in the weft and web of the breathing, evolving text. It is a study which prioritizes the individual poem, then the poem within an expanding formation of poems, then Baudelaire within and beyond that formation: an infini dans le fini. It is also an enquiry into what makes poetry, as well as a provocative contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature of criticism.Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-67) was a French poet. His most famous work Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) is included in this volume in both French and English.
Author: Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Publisher:
ISBN: 1781392064
Category: Poetry
Page: 276
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-67) was a French poet. His most famous work Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) is included in this volume in both French and English. It describes the changing nature of beauty in modern industrialising Paris. Baudelaire's style of prose-poetry was highly original and influenced many poets who drew on his work.