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Editorial Fontamara first edition 1979. Collectible item. Paperback. Some wrinkes due to age. Clean text. Ships from Miami, FL ... Read more

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The inner torments of the poet, critic, and translator are revealed in his letters to his mother over the course of 33 years and ending just prior to his death at the age of 46._"The intimate and profoundly moving letters reveal the tragedy of a sensitive mind, reveal the heartbreaking bitterness and hope and struggle of a man unfitted to combat the implacabilities of life."THE INDEPENDENT ... Read more

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Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867) est un poete francais. Il se vit reprocher son ecriture et le choix de ses sujets. Il ne fut compris que par quelques-uns de ses pairs. Aujourd'hui reconnu comme un ecrivain majeur de l'histoire de la poesie francaise, Baudelaire est devenu un classique. Barbey d'Aurevilly voyait en lui "un Dante d'une epoque dechue". Au travers de son oeuvre, Baudelaire a tente de tisser et de demontrer les liens entre le mal et la beaute, le bonheur et l'ideal inaccessible (A une Passante), la violence et la volupte (Une Martyre), entre le poete et son lecteur (" Hypocrite lecteur, mon semblable, mon frere "), entre les artistes a travers les ages (Les Phares). En parallele de poemes graves (Semper Eadem) ou scandaleux pour l'epoque (Delphine et Hippolyte), il a exprime la melancolie (Moesta et Errabunda) et l'envie d'ailleurs (L'Invitation au Voyage). Il a aussi extrait la beaute de l'horreur (Une Charogne). ... Read more

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In his controversial 1857 work, Les Fleurs du mal, the 19th-century decadent poet addresses the conflict of good and evil by rejecting conventional distinctions to pursue beauty in perversity. This volume features selections from Baudelaire’s masterpiece, perhaps the most influential French poetry ever written, in an inexpensive edition that invitesreaders to explore the remarkable sensuality, depths of thought, and feeling in one of the most original and influential books of the age.
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Selected Poems from "Flowers of Evil"
As a lover of poetry I found these poems to be a bit morbid for my taste.

So-so translation
I'm not a big fan of Baudelaire's verse poetry to begin with (his prose poetry is a different matter), and having read Flowers of Evil in French, I was not impressed with this translation.It contains most of the importantpoems from the original (The Albatross, Her Hair, An Invitation to Voyage,To a Malabar Girl, etc.), so this volume is a good introduction for peopleunfamiliar with Baudelaire.But someone who genuinely wants to studyBaudelaire's poetry would be better off reading James McGowan's translationfor Oxford World's Classics. ... Read more

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Les Fleurs du Mal, once the most infamous book of poems in French literature, has in this century become the most famous and the most admired, owing its "landmark" status to the sheer aesthetic quality of its verses rather than to its judicial condemnation on its first publication in 1857. In this volume, Professor Leakey provides a comprehensive guide to the understanding and appreciation of Les Fleurs du Mal, offering new insights into its composition, themes and style, setting it in its historical context, and devoting a whole chapter to Baudelaire's crowning achievement, Le Cygne. ... Read more

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Angeles y Bestias
En Paris un poeta al salir de una orgiaAngeles aleteando en la bestia veiaNoble vision ustorio de este bardo malditoque canta, en tono grave, su fulgor infinito

Yo tambien se visiones en mi mente precitaUn tropelde mirages sin descanso palpitaQuerubines-demonios,grandeveldad...conmociones,Que harian estreecer los duros corazones Y en elmortal ignoto un angel cantaNo ha elevado un estigma,una vision queespanta?Alguna vez poeta, aunque el simple no creer

En el angeldormido una bestia loquea (patea)

Autor: Dr.Jesus Garcia Vazques

excellent poet
Symbolism is one of those schools of poetry that seems to fallen out of favor.Baudelaire's own particular brand is harsh, revolutionary, and sensual.This is not frilly love poetry but the work of a great decadent of mid-nineteenth century France.While much is lost in translation, his poetry still rings quite powerfully and is as relevant today as it ever will be.This is one of the books that helped found later surrealist movements along with the work of Rimbaud and Marquis De Sade.A great beautiful book dealing with the great temptations and filth of existence, in essence that which brings on evil. ... Read more

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The great poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also an extremely influential art critic. High Art relates the philosophical issues posed by Baudelaire's art writing to the theory and practice of modernist and postmodernist painting. Baudelaire wrote in an age of transition, David Carrier argues, an era divided by the Revolution of 1848, the historical break that played for him a role now taken within modernism by the political revolts of 1968. Moving from the grand tradition of Delacroix to the images of modern life made by Constantin Guys, this movement from high to low from the unified world of correspondences to the fragmented images of contemporary city life, motivates Baudelaire's equivalent to the post-1968 turn away from formalist art criticism. Viewed from the perspective of the 1990s, Carrier argues, the issues raised by Baudelaire's criticism and creative writing provide a way of understanding the situation of art writing in our own time. ... Read more

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Charles Baudelaire..dans ce livre atroce, j'ai mis tout mon c ... Read more