Baudelaire: Poems

Translated by Richard Howard

Translated by Richard Howard
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On sale Feb 17, 2015 | 256 Pages | 9780375712739

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A representative selection of poetry from the groundbreaking author of The Flowers of Evil, translated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard.

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape—populated by the addicted and the damned—which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought to the literary world, Baudelaire looms over all the poetic work, great and small, created in his wake.
Born in 1821, the French poet Charles Baudelaire is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential. An active and important participant in the literary and artistic world of his time, his translations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe were universally praised. He died in 1867. View titles by Charles Baudelaire

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A representative selection of poetry from the groundbreaking author of The Flowers of Evil, translated by the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Richard Howard.

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821–67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape—populated by the addicted and the damned—which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought to the literary world, Baudelaire looms over all the poetic work, great and small, created in his wake.

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Born in 1821, the French poet Charles Baudelaire is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential. An active and important participant in the literary and artistic world of his time, his translations of the works of Edgar Allen Poe were universally praised. He died in 1867. View titles by Charles Baudelaire

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