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Author Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.

Title The flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire ; translated with notes by James McGowan ; with an introduction by Jonathan Culler
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 399 pages)
Series Oxford world's classics
Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Contents Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charles Baudelaire; Translator's Preface; THE FLOWERS OF EVIL; To the Reader; SPLEEN AND THE IDEAL; PARISIAN SCENES; WINE; FLOWERS OF EVIL; REVOLT; DEATH; THE WAIFS; Gallantries; Epigraphs; Diverse Pieces; Buffooneries; ADDITIONAL POEMS FROM THE THIRD EDITION OF THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (1868); Explanatory Notes; Index of Titles; Index of First Lines
Summary The Flowers of Evil, which T.S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poems were banned, ina conviction that was not overturned until 1949. This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their origin
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xlix-l) and indexes
Notes Translated from the French
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Subject Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Translations into English
SUBJECT Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 fast
Subject POETRY -- Continental European.
Genre/Form Erotic poetry, French
Translations
Bilingual books.
Form Electronic book
Author McGowan, James
ISBN 9780191610844
0191610844
9780191611353
0191611352
Other Titles Fleurs du mal. English & French