Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal
by Charles Baudelaire
2021-06-04 12:55:24
Selected Poems from Les Fleurs Du Mal
by Charles Baudelaire
2021-06-04 12:55:24
The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change - the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle-class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann - and they provid...
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The poems of The Flowers of Evil were written in Paris at a time of revolution and accelerating change - the beginning of mass culture, the rise of consumerism and the middle-class, the radical redevelopment of the city by Haussmann - and they provide many parallels with the malaise and uncertainties of contemporary capitalist societies. Jan Owen''s masterly translation captures all of this in a selection that includes many of Baudelaire''s best known poems - including those banned from 1857 edition - as well as some less familiar ones, with the volume leading up to his great long poem, ''The Voyage'', and finishing with the much-loved sonnet ''Meditation''.
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