| Flowers of Evil: A Selection Contributor(s): Baudelaire, Charles (Author), Mathews, Marthiel (Editor), Mathews, Jackson (Editor) |
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ISBN: 081120006X ISBN-13: 9780811200066 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1955 Annotation: This book, which is quintessentially useless and absolutely innocent, was written no other aim than to divert myself and to practice my passionate taste for the difficult. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.8 |
| LCCN: 58009276 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 4.98" W x 8.14" (0.60 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 their opinion, have been most successfully rendered into English. The French texts as established by Yves Gérard Le Dantec for the Pléiade edition are printed en face. Included are Baudelaire's Three Drafts of a Preface and brief notes on the nineteen translators whose work is represented. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baudelaire, Charles: - Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential.Mathews, Marthiel: - Marthiel Mathews was an American poet, translator of French poetry, and academic.Mathews, Jackson: - Jackson Mathews was an American scholar, poet, and translator of French poetry.Mattison, Christopher: - Christopher Mattison has translated and edited numerous works from Russian and Chinese to English. In 2010 he moved to Hong Kong where he is the Director of the Sustainability of Memory and Artifacts (SOMA) Project at City University of Hong Kong. |