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Artificial Paradises by Charles Baudelaire; Stacy Diamond (Translator, Introduction by)
Category: Poetry
At the time of its release in 1860, Charles Baudelaire's "Artificial Paradises (Les Paradis Artificiels)" met with immediate praise. One of the most important French symbolists, Baudelaire led a debauched, violent, and ultimately tragic life, dying an opium addict in 1867. This book, a response to Thoma ...Show more
Charles Baudelaire: The Complete Verse by Charles Baudelaire
Category: Poetry
'Les Fleurs du mal' (1861) was the first great modern work of poetry and one of the few books of poems to become an international bestseller. This edition contains all of Baudelaire's poetry in verse with Francis Scarfe's scrupulous and inventive prose translations at the foot of the pages. Together wit ...Show more
Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire; George Dillon (Translator); Edna St. Vincent Millay (Translator)
Category: Poetry
Book Excerpt: ...black marble-made statuette,And when thou'lt have nought for thy house or alcove,But a cavernous den and a damp oubliette.When the tomb-stone, oppressing thy timorous breast,And thy hips drooping sweetly with listless decay,The pulse and desires of mine heart shall arrest,And thy feet f ...Show more
Flowers of Evil: A Selection by Charles Baudelaire
Category: Education
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 ...Show more
Hashish, Wine, Opium by Charles Baudelaire
Category: Classic Fiction
Among the earliest artistic accounts of the hallucinogenic experience in European literature, the four pieces in this volume document Gautier and Baudelaire's own involvement in the Club of Assassins, who met under the auspices of Dr Moreau to investigate the psychological and mind-enhancing effects of ...Show more
Invitation to the Voyage by Charles Baudelaire; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List Ser.
"Baudelaire is indeed the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language," said T. S. Eliot. We experience Baudelaire in myriad ways through his multifaceted writing. His sensuous poems--dreams of escape to an impossible, preferably tropical, elsewhere--draw us in with their descriptive and perceptu ...Show more
La Fanfarlo by Edward K. Kaplan (Translator); Charles Baudelaire
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Art of the Novella Ser.
A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history's most celebrated writers. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil, the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo. The novella describes the torrid real-life affair th ...Show more
Late Fragments - Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Charles Baudelaire; Richard Sieburth (Translator)
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "In Richard Sieburth's lucid and precise translation and commentary, Baudelaire has found at long last a proper English voice."--Alberto Manguel While not as well-known as his other works, Charles Ba ...Show more
Late Fragments - Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed by Richard Sieburth (Translator); Charles Baudelaire
Category: Poetry | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
The first English collection of the late poetry and prose fragments of literary icon Charles Baudelaire "[A] handsome new book . . . all this inchoate material is given context by Sieburth's learned, elegantly written commentary. He is the perfect guide."--Michael Dirda, Washington Post "[These] ...Show more
Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire; Marthiel Mathews; Jackson Mathews (Selected by, Editor)
Category: Poetry
The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr ...Show more