The Flowers of Evil (Echo Editions, #2) (Classic Poetry) (Poetry - Decadence and Eroticism)

Name: The Flowers of Evil
Rating: 3.00 (2 reviews)

by Charles Baudelaire and Cyril Scott

Jonathan Culler and James N. McGowan (Translator)

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The Flowers of Evil (Echo Editions, #2) (Classic Poetry) (Poetry - Decadence and Eroticism)

by Charles Baudelaire and Cyril Scott

Jonathan Culler and James N. McGowan (Translator)

2 ratings • 1 review • 3 shelved

This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection.

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ISBN10 0192835459
ISBN13 9780192835451
Publish Date 1 October 1998 (first published 1 February 1955)
Publish Status Active
Out of Print 29 May 2008
Publish Country GB
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford Paperbacks

Edition New edition
Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
Pages 464
Language English

Reviews

celinenyx

Written on May 15, 2014

Poetry has never been very much "my thing", and The Flowers of Evil just aren't interesting or clever enough to catch my attention. For my dirty modern mind his poems just aren't shocking or indecent at all, and most of his ideas fell flat for me. I can imagine the poems were a huge inspiration for his contemporaries, but they don't hold up well over time.