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The flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire ; selected and edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.
LIBRA PQ2191.F62 E5 1989 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 676.
- A New Directions paperbook ; 676
- Standardized Title:
- Fleurs du mal. English & French
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- French poetry--19th century--Translations into English.
- French poetry.
- French poetry--19th century.
- Genre:
- Translations.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xxxi, 448 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions, 1989.
- Summary:
- Baudelaire's classic work is presented through a compilation of distinguished English translations, with the original text in the book's second half.
- Contents:
- The Flowers of Evil
- Dedication
- To the Reader
- Spleen and Ideal
- Benediction
- The Albatross
- Elevation
- Correspondences
- "I like to bring to mind . . ."
- Beacon Lights
- Sick Muse
- Mercenary Muse
- The Bad Monk
- The Enemy
- Bad Luck
- The Life Before
- Gypsy Travelers
- Man and Sea
- Don Juan in Hell
- Pride Punished
- Beauty
- The Ideal
- Giantess
- The Mask
- Hymn to Beauty
- Exotic Perfume
- Hair
- "I adore you . . ."
- "You would take the whole universe . . ."
- Sed Non Satiata
- "In her flowing pearly garments . . ."
- Dancing Serpent
- Carrion
- De Profundis Clamavi
- Vampire
- "One night while I lay . . ."
- Posthumous Remorse
- The Cat
- Duel
- The Balcony
- The Possessed
- A Phantom
- "I give you these verses . . ."
- Semper Eadem
- Altogether
- "What will you say this evening . . ."
- Living Torch
- Reversibility
- Confession
- Spiritual Dawn
- Evening's Harmony
- Flask
- Poison
- l Sky in Confusion
- Cat
- The Fine-looking Ship
- Invitation to the Voyage
- The Irreparable
- Conversation
- Autumn Song
- To a Madonna
- Afternoon Song
- Sisina
- Franciscae Meae Laudes
- To a Creole Lady
- Moesta et Errabunda
- Revenant
- Autumn Sonnet
- The Sorrowing Moon
- Cats
- Owls
- The Pipe
- Music
- Burial
- A Fantasy Print
- Dead Man Glad
- The Vessel of Hate
- The Cracked Bell
- Spleen
- Obsession
- The Taste for Nothing
- Alchemy of Pain
- Sympathetic Horror
- Heautontimoroumenos
- Beyond Remedy
- The Clock
- Parisian Scenes
- Landscape
- The Sun
- To a Redheaded Beggar Girl
- The Swan
- The Seven Old Men
- The Little Old Women
- The Blind
- To a Woman Passing By
- The Skeleton Laborer
- Evening Twilight
- Gambling
- Danse Macabre
- Love of a Lie
- "I have not forgotten . . ."
- "The big-hearted servant . . ."
- Fog, Rain
- Paris Dream
- Morning Twilight
- Wine
- The Soul of the Wine
- The Ragpicker's Wine
- The Assassin's Wine
- The Wine of the Solitary
- The Wine of Lovers
- Flowers of Evil
- Destruction
- A Martyr
- Women Damned
- The Two Good Sisters
- The Fountain of Blood
- Allegory
- His Beatrice
- A Voyage to Cythera
- Love and the Skull
- Revolt
- Saint Peter's Denial
- Abel and Cain
- Litanies of Satan
- Death
- The Death of Lovers
- Death of the Poor
- The Death of Artists
- End of Day
- Dream of a Curious Character
- The Voyage
- The Banned Poems
- Lesbos
- Lethe
- To Her, Too Merry
- The Jewels
- Metamorphoses of the Vampire.
- Notes:
- English and French.
- Includes indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0811211177
- 9780811211178
- OCLC:
- 19669640
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