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

by Charles Baudelaire and Cyril Scott

James N. McGowan (Translator) and Jonathan Culler (Introduction)

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The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poems were banned, in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949.

This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their...Read more
  • ISBN10 0199535582
  • ISBN13 9780199535583
  • Publish Date 17 April 2008 (first published 1 February 1955)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 464
  • Language English