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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...
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Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Upon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Mal" or "The Flowers of Evil" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned...
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On the 200th anniversary of Baudelaire's birth comes this stunning, landmark translation of the book that launched modern poetry. A shocking, controversial work in its own time and the most influential book of poetry of the nineteenth century-"the greatest exemplar in modern poetry in any language" (T.S. Eliot)-Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil is a gritty, often perverse, exploration of the underbelly of urban modernity. Acclaimed translator...
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Spectrum book. Twentieth century views ; S-TC-18
Publisher
Prentice-Hall
Pub. Date
[1962]
Language
English
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New Directions paperbook ; 336
Publisher
New Directions Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1972.
Language
English
Author
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Studies in French literature ; no. 6
Publisher
E. Arnold
Pub. Date
[1960]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
"Intratextual Baudelaire: The Sequential Fabric of the Fleurs du mal and Spleen de Paris by Randolph Paul Runyon provides a new and provocative answer to the question that has intrigued readers for years: did the poet arrange the Fleurs du mal in a meaningful order? Runyon believes so, but not in the way most have conceived the question. Barbey d'Aurevilly's claim that there was a "secret architecture" hidden in the Fleurs has long misled scholars...