Les Fleurs du Mal
Author(s): Charles Baudelaire; Marthiel Mathews; Jackson Mathews (Selected by, Editor)
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 Decree The poet issues forth upon this sorry sphere, His mother, horrified, and full of blasphemy, Uplifts her voice to God, who takes compassion on her. "Ah, why did I not bear a serpent's nest entire, Instead of bringing forth this hideous Child of Doom Oh curs d be that transient night of vain desire When I conceived my expiation in my womb "
General Information
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- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- : 0.428
- : 17 October 1989
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Charles Baudelaire; Marthiel Mathews; Jackson Mathews (Selected by, Editor)
- : Paperback
- : New ed
- : English
- : 841.8
- : 448