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Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du mal: A Bilingual Edition
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"A fine, formal translation of the best poems of France's founder of the symbolist movement."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"It's rare to find a rewarding translation of a masterwork, particularly a collection of groundbreaking poetry. . . . Through Shapiro's skillful wordsmithing, the reader can fully appreciate Baudelaire's control of the soul and the word which is the ancient and indefatigable ambition of all great poets. . . . Shapiro's interpretations set the standard for future English translations."—Virginia Quarterly Review
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1026166 in Books
- Published on: 2000-03-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 248 pages
Editorial Reviews
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Abel And Cain
The Albatross
All Of Her
Autumn Sonnet
Beatrice Mine
The Beautiful Ship
Beauty
Boredom It Is That Breeds Your Vicious Soul
Burial
The Cat
Cats
Chat
Correspondences
The Cracked Bell
Dawn Of The Spirit
De Profundis Clamavi
Destruction
Don Juan In Hell
Dressed In Her Opalescent, Shimmering Clothes
Elevation
The End Of The Day
The Enemy
Evening Harmony
Exotic Perfume
A Fantastic Engraving
For A Creole Lady
The Former Life
The Fountain Of Blood
The Giantess
Grief's Alchemy
Harmony Of Horror
Heautontimoroumenos
Heavens' Haze
Hymn To Beauty
I Still Recall Our Little House, Out There
I Worship You Like Heaven's Dark Vault, O Urn
The Ideal
The Incubus
Invitation To The Voyage
The Jinx
Landscape
The Living Torch
The Lone Man's Wine
Lovers' Wine
Man And The Sea
Mists And Rains
Moesta Et Errabunda
Morning Twilight
Music
Obsession
One Night, With A Vile Jewess By My Side
The Owls
The Pipe
Poison
The Possessed
Pride Punished
Reversibility
Sed Non Satiata
The Sick Muse
Sorrows Of The Moon
Spleen (1)
Spleen (2)
Spleen (3)
Spleen (4)
The Sun
The Swan
The Taste For Nothingness
To The Reader
Tresses
The Two Good Sisters
The Vampire
What Will You Say, Once Withered Heart Of Mine
The Wretched Monk
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®
Language Notes
Text: English, French (translation)
Original Language: French
Customer Reviews
By far the best treatment Baudelaire has received in English
Shapiro manages to capture Baudelaire's essence without sacrificing his form. These versions read like English poetry. They are the best I have read--and I have read them all, past and present. Highly recommended for admirers of Baudelaire and students of the craft (and art!) of literary translation.
The finest translation of Baudelaire in English
This bilingual edition (masterfully translated by Norman Shapiro) carefully transposes the French originals into a formal, poetic English idiom, which captures both the meaning and the music of Baudelaire, the fallen angel and champion of evil. Though conventional in terms of his metrics and poetic forms, Baudelaire is arguably the first great Modernist poet. One dives into the murky miasmata of these pages to discover a world of perverse pleasures, wrathful and sordid imagery and unregenerate vice glorified by one of its most eloquent spokesmen. Baudelaire, a tortured personality, in which profound guilt is contraposed with carnal lust, Satanism, delight in cruelty and a longing for hell, is one of the towering giants of modern European literature. His poetry is a bitter fruit that few can savour with impunity.
