The Flowers of Evil de Charles P. Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil

Charles P. Baudelaire

Cyril Scott

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Poetry - Decadence and Eroticism

The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire

Translated into English Verse by Cyril Scott

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Les Fleurs du mal (English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.

The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes mOEurs ("an insult to public decency"). As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. These poems were "Lesbos"; "Femmes damnees (A la pale clarte)" (or "Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer...)"); "Le Lethe" (or "Lethe"); "A celle qui est trop gaie" (or "To Her Who Is Too Gay"); "Les Bijoux" (or "The Jewels"); and " Les "Metamorphoses du Vampire" (or "The Vampire's Metamorphoses"). These were later published in Brussels in a small volume entitled Les Epaves (Scraps or Jetsam).

On the other hand, upon reading "The Swan" (or "Le Cygne") from Les Fleurs du mal, Victor Hugo announced that Baudelaire had created "un nouveau frisson" (a new shudder, a new thrill) in literature.

Includes: ObsessionMagnetic HorrorThe LidBertha's EyesThe Set of the Romantic SunMeditationTo a Passer-byIllusionary LoveMists and RainsThe Wine of LoversCondemned WomenThe Death of the Lovers

and many more.......

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Express

Paperback (7)

37^.34 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

37^.34 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE –

56^.81 lei 3-5 săpt.

–

56^.98 lei 3-5 săpt.

CREATESPACE – 30 sep 2009

58^.03 lei 3-5 săpt.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform –

77^.04 lei 3-5 săpt.

Watchmaker Publishing – 24 iun 2010

52^.90 lei 6-8 săpt.

Aegypan Press – 30 sep 2011

73^.74 lei 6-8 săpt.

Hardback (1)

149^.58 lei 6-8 săpt.

Aegypan Press – 31 aug 2011

149^.58 lei 6-8 săpt.

Notă biografică

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century. Baudelaire's highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé among many others. He is credited with coining the term "modernity" (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis and the responsibility art has to capture that experience.