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
of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in agreat metropolis
and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic,
Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding
text of modernism.Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his
virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a
new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the
original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own
right. Presented here in a dual-language edition, with extra
material, notes and bibliography.
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