Selected poems from Les fleurs du mal
Subtitle: a bilingual edition
By: Charles Baudelaire ; English renderings and notes by Norman R. Shapiro ; foreword by Willis Barnstone ; engravings by David Schorr.
Contributors: Shapiro, Norman R.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 209
Description: A bilingual edition of selected poems of a 19th century French master. In "The cat," one reads in this English version: "Come, cat of mine, perch on my loving breast; / Come, beauty, lie in gentle guise: / Pull in your claws, and let me plunge, possessed, / Into your agate-metal eyes."
Notes: Poems in French with English translation on the facing page.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-200) and index.