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In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.

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Overview

In both his life and his poetry, Charles Pierre Baudelaire pushed the accepted limits of his time. His dissolute bohemian life was as shocking to his nineteenth-century readers as his poetry. Writing in classical style but with brutal honesty, Baudelaire laid bare human suffering, aspirations, and perversions.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780140446241
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/28/1996
  • Series: Penguin Classics Series
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 940,979
  • Product dimensions: 4.50 (w) x 7.86 (h) x 0.65 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris in 1821. His first publication was Le Salon de 1845, and he earned renown as an art critic and as a translator of Edgar Allan Poe. As a poet, his fame rests on Les Fleurs du mal. The collection was published in 1857, and certain poems were condemned as an offence against public morals; the book is now considered one of the masterpieces of nineteenth-century French literature. Baudelaire went to Brussels, where he hoped to earn money by lecturing; but his hopes foundered, his health gave way, and he was taken back to Paris, where he died in 1867.

Carol Clark is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She has previously translated Baudelaire for Penguin Classics.

Carol Clark is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She has previously translated Baudelaire for Penguin Classics.

Carol Clark is an emeritus fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. She has previously translated Baudelaire for Penguin Classics.

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Table of Contents

Selected Poems Introduction Notes on the Text Suggestions for Further Reading
Les Fleurs du Mal
Au Lecteur Spleen et Idéal Tableaux parisiens Le Vin Fleurs du Mal Révolte La Mort

Les Epaves
Les Epaves Galanteries Pièces diverses

Poems Added in 1868
Other Verse Poems Petits Poëmes en prose Glossary Index of Titles and First Lines

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