The Flowers of Evil
Descriere
Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in agreat metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism. Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right.
Despre autor
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire a fost un poet francez care a produs, de asemenea, lucrări notabile ca eseist, critic de artă și unul dintre primii traducători ai lui Edgar Allan Poe. Poeziile sale prezintă măiestrie în folosirea rimei și a ritmului și conțin un exotism moștenit de la romantici, dar se bazează pe observații ale vieții reale.
