Product Description

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #581252 in Books
• Published on: 1993-11-02
• Released on: 1993-11-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
Also available in everyman's library pocket poets

W. H. Auden

William Blake

Lord Byron

Emily Dickinson

John Donne

Thomas Hardy

Gerard Manley Hopkins

John Keats

Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Rimbaud

Christina Rossetti

William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wallace Stevens

Walt Whitman

William Wordsworth

Animal Poems

Erotic Poems

Friendship Poems

Love Poems

Prayers -- Review

The Abyss
Against Her Levity
The Albatross
Alchemy Of Suffering
Allegory
Altogether
Artist Unknown
Autumn Sonnet
Autumnal
The Bad Monk
The Balcony
Beauty
Berthe: Her Eyes
Burial
By Association
Carrion
The Cask Of Hate
The Cat
Cat
Cats
The Clock
Confession
Consecration
Conversation (one Side)
Correspondences
The Cracked Bell
Craving For Oblivion
Crowds
Damned Women
Damned Women -- Delphine And Hippolyta
Dance Of Death
De Profundis Clamavi
The Death Of Artists
The Death Of Lovers
The Death Of The Poor
Destruction
Duellum
Elevation
The Enemy
Epigraph For A Banned Book
Eros And The Skull
Even When She Walks
Evening Harmony
A Fantastic Engraving
The Favours Of The Moon
The Fine Ship
The Flask
The Fool And The Venus
The Fountain
Gamblers
Get Drunk!
Giantess
Guiding Lights
Gypsies On The Road
The Happy Corpse
The Head Of Hair
Heauton Timoroumenos
A Hemisphere In A Head Of Hair
Hymn
Hymn To Beauty
I Have Not Forgotten
I Prize The Memory
I Spent The Night
Icarus Laments
The Ideal
Impenitent
In Passing
Incubus
Invitation To The Voyage
Invitation To The Voyage
The Irremediable
The Irreparable
Jewels
Lesbos
Lethe
The Lid
The Little Old Women
The Living Torch
A Long Way From Here
Love Of Deceit
Lovers' Wine
A Martyr
Meditation
Metamorphoses Of The Vampire
Mists And Rains
Moesta Et Errabunda
The Murderer's Wine
The Muse For Hire
Music
Obsession
The Offended Moon
The Old Woman's Despair
Overcast
Owls
Parisian Landscape
The Pipe
Poison
Possessed
Posthumous Regret
The Promises Of A Face
The Punishment Of Pride
Ragpickers' Wine
The Rebel
Reversibility
Romantic Sunset
Sad Madrigal
Saint Peter's Denial
Scrutiny At Midnight
Sed Non Satiata
Semper Eadem
The Seven Old Men
The Sick Muse
Sisina
The Solitary's Wine
Solitude
Song For Late In The Day
Sorrows Of The Moon
The Soul Of The Wine
Spiritual Dawn
Spleen (1)
Spleen (2)
Spleen (3)
Spleen (4)
A Strange Man's Dream
The Sun
Suppose My Name
The Swan
Sympathetic Horror
To A Creole Lady
To A Malabar Girl
To A Red-haired Beggar Girl
To The Impeccable Poet
To The Reader
Travelers
Twilight: Daybreak
Twilight: Evening
The Two Kind Sisters
The Unforeseen
Urn Of Stilled Sorrows
The Vampire
The Voice
A Voyage To Cythera
What Will You Say Tonight
You Used To Be Jealous
You'd Sleep With Anyone
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Review
Also available in everyman's library pocket poets

W. H. Auden

William Blake

Lord Byron

Emily Dickinson

John Donne

Thomas Hardy

Gerard Manley Hopkins

John Keats

Edgar Allan Poe

Arthur Rimbaud

Christina Rossetti

William Shakespeare

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wallace Stevens

Walt Whitman

William Wordsworth

Animal Poems

Erotic Poems

Friendship Poems

Love Poems

Prayers

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Customer Reviews

Buy this now.
the "Everyman's" series is the best stocking stuffers ever created. I am a bit of a Baudelaire buff, and I must say, this small version is perhaps my favorite. There is not much else to say. I have spent the time sorting through the poorly translated, badly misquoted versions of Flowers of Evil. Learn from my mistake. Pass by the frilly, big, seventeen color dustjacket editions and buy this little guy. It will not dissapoint you. Good day.

Best Book By The Creator of Modern Poetry!
Baudelaire is credited, along with Whitman and Dickinson, with being the inventor of modern poetry. I wish someone would actually explain why modern poetry begins with him. (email anyone?)

But this book really is great. Get the Everyman's Pocket Poet's version. It's got all (or almost all, I haven't counted) of Baudelaire's masterpiece "Les Fleur Du Mal," in a good translation by Richard Howard (though also check out Norman Shapiro's). And it has selections from Michael Hamburger's wonderful translation of Baudelaire's prose poems, "Le Spleen Du Paris." The best of these is "GET DRUNK," or "Enivrez-vous!" It begins:

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need. So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing. ....

Baudelaire was full of dark energy like that. It disgusts and attracts. When it gets tiresome--and, like too much honey and too much Delacroix, reading about maggots eating lovers' flesh, will get tiresome--just put it down. When you pick it up you'll get some fresh insights. How fresh? As fresh as the in simile B. uses in "the Vampire": "bind[ing] me . . . as gambler to his winning streak." Nicely done. Plus the book is small so you can sneak it into work and easily goof off.

don't forget translators' names
this translation was produced by a contemporory American poet Richard Howard, whose poems were included in the Norton Anthology of English Poetry. - English is my third language. - I agree with the review of Howard's version in 'Baudelaire in English'.