This is a complete concordance, based on the Jacques Crepet-Georges Blin critical edition of "Les Fleurs du mal" and prepared on a UNIVAC 1105 computer. Every word of the 161 poems that comprise the critical edition and its supplement is indexed within the line of context. The variants are alphabetized and a complete word-frequency count concludes the volume. The editor explains the mechanics of the concordance in an introductory essay.
Originally published in 1965.
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This volume was presented to Professor Engstrom in celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday. Its sixteen studies, contributed by colleagues, friends, and former students, move from the late Urban T. Holmes's article on the Middle Ages down to the nineteenth century, with articles encompassing various aspects of French, Spanish, and Italian literatures.