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Flowers of Evil: A Selection (New Directions Paperbook, No. 71)
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #544437 in Books
- Published on: 1955-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 168 pages
Customer Reviews
GREAT TRANSLATION!!!
THIS IS A FANTASTIC TRANSLATION! AND MY FAVORITE EDITION OF BAUDELAIRE BESIDES THE COMPLETE FLOWERS OF EVIL ALSO FROM NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING.
O, where have you gone, Baudelaire?
Flowers of Evil is teeming with imagery that is, at times, lofty, and others, bitter. My favorite edition is the 1955 New Directions Paperbook edition. He was truly a poet who lived and thought rather than the masses who merely muse on living. Read his poetry and step lightly through the flowers.
I know a better translation.
Rather than this edition, I suggest Crosby's translation (Boa Publication). In it he has captured not only the meaning of B's poems, but maintained the music (rhythm and rhyme) of the poetry as well
