The Flowers of Evil
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About This Book
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 of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebrationof the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection.
Chapters (58)(click to expand)
- THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
- CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
- TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
- CYRIL SCOTT
- Benediction
- Echoes
- The Sick Muse
- The Venal Muse
- The Evil Monk
- The Enemy
- Ill Luck
- Interior Life
- Man and the Sea
- Beauty
- The Ideal
- The Giantess
- Hymn to Beauty
- Exotic Perfume
- La Chevelure
- Sonnet XXVIII
- Posthumous Remorse
- The Balcony
- The Possessed One
- Semper Eadem
- All Entire
- Sonnet XLIII
- The Living Torch
- The Spiritual Dawn
- Evening Harmony
- Overcast Sky
- Invitation to a Journey
- "Causerie"
- Autumn Song
- Sisina
- To a Creolean Lady
- Moesta et Errabunda
- The Ghost
- Autumn Song
- Sadness of the Moon-Goddess
- Cats
- Owls
- Music
- The Joyous Defunct
- The Broken Bell
- Spleen
- Obsession
- Magnetic Horror
- The Lid
- Bertha's Eyes
- The Set of the Romantic Sun
- Meditation
- To a Passer-by
- Illusionary Love
- Mists and Rains
- The Wine of Lovers
- Condemned Women
- The Death of the Lovers
- The Death of the Poor
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