Flowers of Evil: Selections
Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere.\ The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct and indirect influence on the literature of our time has been immeasurable.\ Flowers of Evil: A Selection contains 53 poems which the editors feel best represent the total work and which. in...
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This book contains selections from Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs de Mal), a volume of poems once notorious for their themes of eroticism, lesbianism, morbidity and rebellion, but which are admired today for their depth of thought and feeling, as well as their remarkable sensuality.
