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The Flowers Of Evil

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.” 

by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9 1821 in Paris to an amateur artist mother and professional father. His father died when Charles was 6 but his mother remarried shortly after to Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick who later became a prominent ambassador. Consequently Charles received a good...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic...
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by Charles Baudelaire, Frank Pearce Sturm, Thomas Robert Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014

Example in this ebook   FLOWERS OF EVIL AVE ATQUE VALE In Memory of Charles Baudelaire By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Nous devrions pourtant lui porter quelques fleurs; Les morts, les pauvres morts, ont de grandes douleurs, Et quand Octobre souffle,...
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by Charles Baudelaire, Roy Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2019

The poetic classic of decadence and eroticism. Beautifully translated by Roy Campbell. 
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 1955

Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017

Les Flers du Mal, translated as The Flowers of Evil (first published in 1857), originally condemned as obscene, is recognized as a masterpiece, especially remarkable for the brilliant phrasing, rhythm, and expressiveness of its lyrics. Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was one of the greatest French...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.Widely regarded as a masterpiece of nineteenth-century French poetry, Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal (“The Flowers of Evil”) is celebrated for its daring explorations of the dualities of the human soul in...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2019

The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable. Flowers of Evil: A Selection contains 53 poems which the editors feel best represent the total work and which....
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The Prose Poetry - Volume 1

“Always be a poet, even in prose.” 

by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born on April 9 1821 in Paris to an amateur artist mother and professional father. His father died when Charles was 6 but his mother remarried shortly after to Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Aupick who later became a prominent ambassador. Consequently Charles received a good...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015

Jan Owen's masterly translation captures all of Baudelaire's passion and anguish in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire's best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, 'The Voyage', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet 'Meditation'.
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

The Flowers of Evil is a volume of French poems 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. This edition has been formatted for your reader, with an...
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by Charles Baudelaire
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

**** PREMIUM EBOOK WITH BEAUTIFUL LAYOUT **** The "Petits Poèmes en Prose" are experiments, and they are also confessions. "Who of us," says Baudelaire in his dedicatory preface, "has not dreamed, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without...
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by Francis Ponge
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2008

Francis Ponge boldly proclaims his poetic goal in Mute Objects of Expression: "To accept the challenge that objects offer to language." These objects—less chosen than received spontaneously—are perceived with inimitable Pongean humor and rendered into glimmering still lifes. He gives...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1984

A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "[This translation] is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov.
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