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The flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire. Selected and edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.
LIBRA PQ2191.F6 E47 1955
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
- Series:
- New Directions book
- A New Directions book
- Standardized Title:
- Fleurs du mal. Selections. English & French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gordon, Betty Ryan (autograph) (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2)
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, xxiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 450 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : [New Directions], [1955.]
- Contents:
- Three drafts of a preface / by Charles Baudelaire
- The Flowers of Evil. Bile and the ideal; Parisian scenes; Wine; Flowers of evil; Revolt; Death; Further poems
- Translation. The Peace-Pipe
- Les Fleurs du Mail (French Texts).
- Notes:
- "New Directions Books are published by James Laughlin at Norfolk, Connecticut. New York Office--333 Sixth Ave."
- "So far as we know and can judge, we offer here the best English translations of Baudelaire's poems done in these hundred years. They have been collected from every published and unpublished source we could find in America and England, and they range in date from 1869, two years after Baudelaire's death, to 1954. Each translation has been judged on its own merits, without regard to the translator; each has won a competition, some against as many as twenty versions of the same poem."--A Note on this Edition.
- "Notes on the translators": p. 445-450.
- Errata slip inserted.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2 has dustjacket (torn around edges) retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy 2 has ms. inscription on front flyleaf: "To Lillian Christmas 1955 from Betty Ryan Gordon - en souvenir des tendresses et reconnaissances".
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok October 1958 Los Angeles".
- Potok Collection copy has errata slip wanting.
- OCLC:
- 503543
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