The Flowers of Evil

By: Charles Baudelaire

Published November 22nd 2014 by CreateSpace (first published June 25th 1857)

Category: Arts

Pages: 346 pages

ISBN: 9781503217706

Description:
Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal marked an important turning point in the history of world poetry, providing a crucial link between romanticism and modernism. This brand new translation, completed in 2014, preserves the metre and rhyme scheme of each original poem. Some of the poems are very beautiful, while others are not for the faint-hearted. Taken as a whole, they convey the 'spleen' or 'ennui' which Baudelaire felt so keenly, a state of mind that echoes the 'mal du siècle' of early 19th century France.