The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal (Translated by William Aggeler with an Introduction by Frank Pearce Sturm) (Paperback)

from Michael.Rimmer

This wasn't the pit of debauchery I'd half expected from its reputation. Which isn't to say there aren't some shocking images ("The Carcass" comes to mind), but times have moved on. It's an interesting reflection that poems explicitly about necrophilia weren't banned upon publication, but those a...

from the_terrible_trivium

The book that convinced me that there might actually be something to this thing called "poetry" after all. Picked it off the library shelf in spite of my prejudices against the form (probably due to nothing more than its admittedly awesome title) and then sat in my bed that evening, put on some N...

from tuckerresearch

Classic anthology of translations with the French version as well. It would be perfect if the original French was on the facing page with the translation.

from datrappert

I don't speak French and can't read more than a few words here and there, but as I was reading Howard's non-rhyming translation, I felt for the first time I was seeing into the mind of Baudelaire. Surely it couldn't have been the translator's mind. These poems are full of disturbing images and ve...

from John.Tidball

This is a completely new translation of this seminal work. Each poem is translated into rhyming verse, preserving both the rhyme scheme and metre of the original. A must-read for all non-francophone poetry lovers.