The flowers of evil
By: Selected and edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1963
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 448
Description: Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in a great metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.
Notes: English and French.