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Complete Poems
Carcanet 2012; US$ 27.64Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published in the first... more...
The Poem of Hashish
ReadHowYouWant 2006; US$ 3.99A comprehensive and factual essay in which Baudelaire analyses the feelings, both pleasurable and torturous, experienced by an opium user and the intense effort it takes to overcome the addiction. Delving deep into the subject, he traces the origins of the plant from which hashish is made. The essay is highly informative and serves as a warning to... more...
Selected Poems
Penguin Books Ltd 2004; Not AvailableThe poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal life of Paris's thieves, drunkards and prostitutes amid the debris of factories and poorhouses. In love poems such as 'Le Beau Navire',... more...
The Painter of Modern Life
Penguin Books Ltd 2010; Not AvailablePoet, aesthete and hedonist, Baudelaire was also one of the most groundbreaking art critics of his time. Here he explores beauty, fashion, dandyism, the purpose of art and the role of the artist, and describes the painter who, for him, expresses most fully the drama of modern life. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world.... more...
Paris Spleen, and La Fanfarlo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2008; US$ 12.00Paris Spleen, a diverse collection of fifty prose poems, is provided here in a clear, engaging, and accurate translation that conveys the lyricism and nuance of the original French text. Also included is a translation of Baudelaire's early novella, La Fanfarlo, which, alongside Paris Spleen, sheds light on the development of Baudelaire's work over... more...
Paris Spleen
Wesleyan University Press 2010; US$ 17.99A modernist classic translated for the twenty-first century more...
Fanfarlo
Melville House 2012; US$ 11.00A stunning new translation of a neglected masterpiece by one of history?s most celebrated writers. Ten years before Baudelaire published his masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil , the great poet penned the only prose fiction of his career: La Fanfarlo . The novella describes the torrid real-life affair the poet had with Jean Duval, a dancer whose... more...
Der Spleen von Paris
WBG - Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2012; US$ 17.25Hauptbeschreibung Baudelaire gilt heute als Begründer der modernen Poesie und als Prototyp des modernen Dichters. Seine Prosagedichte sind Ausdruck einer radikal neuen Ästhetik. Die kurzen Szenen und Betrachtungen spiegeln das alltägliche Leben in der Großstadt. Sie sind bevölkert von Alten, Bettlern, Prostituierten, Handwerkern, Milchfrauen und... more...
The Flowers of Evil
OUP Oxford 1993; US$ 8.99The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the... more...
Selections From 'The Flowers Of Evil' (Le Fleurs Du Mal)
Digireads.com Publishing 2012; US$ 5.99This selection from Baudelaire's 'The Flowers Of Evil' (Le Fleurs Du Mal) contains the following poems: Benediction, Echoes, The Sick Muse, The Venal Muse, The Evil Monk, The Enemy, Man and the Sea, Beauty, The Ideal, The Giantess, Hymn to Beauty, Exotic Perfume, La Chevelure, Sonnet XXVIII, Posthumous Remorse, The Balcony, The Possessed... more...
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