"A new shudder. A new thrill" - Victor Hugo
This striking pocket hardback edition presents Charles Baudelaire's classic poetry collection, The Flowers of Evil, featuring silver cover embossing and gilded page-edges.
Charles Baudelaire was one of the most influential French writers of the 19th century, whose darkly beautiful poetry never failed to leave a lasting mark on his readers. Controversial and challenging, the outspoken nature of his poems marks him out as a pivotal figure in European literature - a bridge between the Romantics of the past and 20th-century modernism.
Flowers of Evil, or 'Les Fleurs du mal', is perhaps his most celebrated collection, which addresses themes of love, decadence, and death. Though many of these poems were banned in his lifetime, their lyrical beauty and penetrating themes have ensured their enduring success.
This edition includes curated selection of the poems from the 1861 publication, with translations from Cyril Scott, Lewis Piaget Shanks, Frank Pearce Sturm, Jack Collings Squire and James Elroy Flecker. This is elegantly presented with a silver embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and silver gilded page edges, making a wonderful gift or collectible for any lover of classic poetry.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
SPLEEN AND IDEAL
Benediction
Élévation
Echoes
The Beacons
The Sick Muse
The Venal Muse
The Evil Monk
The Enemy
Ill Luck
Interior Life
Gypsies Travelling
Man and the Sea
Don Juan in Hell
The Chastisement of Pride
Beauty
The Ideal
The Giantess
Hymn to Beauty
Exotic Perfume
La Chevelure
Sonnet XXVIII
The Corpse
De Profundis Clamavi
Une Nuit Que J'étais Près d'une Affreuse Juive
Le Léthé
Posthumous Remorse
The Balcony
The Possessed One
Un Fantôme
Je te donne ces vers afin que si mon nom
Semper Eadem
All Entire
Sonnet XLIII
The Living Torch
Reversibility
The Spiritual Dawn
Evening Harmony
The Flask
Le Poison
Ciel brouillé
Le Chat
Invitation to a Journey
The Irreparable
'Causerie'
Autumn Song
À une Madone
Sisina
Franciscæ Meæ Laudes
To a Creolean Lady
Moesta et Errabunda
The Ghost
Autumn Song
Sadness of the Moon-Goddess
Cats
Owls
The Pipe
Music
The Burial of an Accursed Poet
The Joyous Defunct
The Broken Bell
Spleen
Spleen 2
Spleen 3
Spleen 4
Obsession
Alchimie de la douleur
Magnetic Horror
L'Héautontimouroméno
PARISIAN SCENES
A Landscape
To a Brown Beggar-Maid
The Swan
The Seven Old Men
The Little Old Women
The Blind
To a Passer-by
Le Squelette laboureur
Le Crépuscule du soir
The Dance of Death
Illusionary Love
Mists and Rains
Le Crépuscule du matin
WINE
The Soul of Wine
The Murderer's Wife
Le Vin du solitaire
The Wine of Lovers
FLOWERS OF EVIL
Condemned Women
An Allegory
La Beatrice
A Voyage to Cythera
REVOLT
Les Litanies de Satan
DEATH
The Death of the Lovers
The Death of the Poor
The Death of the Artists
The Voyage
