Flowers of Evil - Couverture souple

Baudelaire, Charles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811211177 ISBN 13 : 9780811211178

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Benediction When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree The poet issues forth upon this sorry sphere, His mother, horrified, and full of blasphemy, Uplifts her voice to God, who takes compassion on her. " Ah, why did I not bear a serpent's nest entire, Instead of bringing forth this hideous Child of Doom ! Oh cursed be that transient night of vain desire When I conceived my expiation in my womb ! * " Yet since among all women thou hast chosen me To be the degradation of my jaded mate, And since I cannot like a love-leaf wantonly Consign this stunted monster to the glowing grate," " I'll cause thine overwhelming hatred to rebound Upon the cursed tool of thy most wicked spite. Forsooth, the branches of this wretched tree I'll wound And rob its pestilential blossoms of their might!" So thus, she giveth vent unto her foaming ire, And knowing not the changeless statutes of all times, Herself, amid the flames of hell, prepares the pyre; The consecrated penance of maternal c

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; 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 33; Overcast Sky 34; Invitation to a Journey • 35; "Causeiie" 37; Autumn Song ?•• 3^; Sisina 39; To a Creolean Lady 4°; Moesta et Errabunda 41; The Ghost 43; Autumn Song 44; Sadness of the Moon-Goddess 45; Cats 46; Owls ••• 47; Music ••• 48; The Joyous Defunct 49; The Broken Bell 5°; Spleen 51; Obsession 5 2; Magnetic Horror 53; The Lid 54; Bertha's Eyes 55; The Set of the Romantic Sun 56; Meditation ••? ••• 57; To a Passer-by 5&; Illusionary Love 59; Mists and Rains 60; The Wine of Lovers 61; Condemned Women 62; The Death of the

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The poetic masterpiece of the great nineteenth-century writer Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil is one of the most frequently read and studied works in the French language. In this compelling new translation of Baudelaire's most famous collection, Keith Waldrop recasts the poet's original French alexandrines and other poetic arrangements into versets, a form that hovers between poetry and prose. Maintaining Baudelaire's complex view of sound and structure, Waldrop's translation mirrors the intricacy of the original without attempting to replicate its inimitable verse. The result is a powerful new re-imagining, one that is, almost paradoxically, closer to Baudelaire's own poetry than any previous English translation. Including the six poems banned from the first edition, this Flowers of Evil preserves the complexity, eloquence, and dark humor of its author. Brought here to new life, it is hypnotic, frank, and forceful.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0811211177
• ISBN 13: 9780811211178
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448