The flowers of evil - Baudelaire, Charles 1821-1867 (Oxford University Press, 2008)
"First published as a World's classics paperback 1993. Reissued as an Oxford world's classics paperback 1998"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages xlix-l) and indexes
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charles Baudelaire; Translator's Preface; THE FLOWERS OF EVIL; To the Reader; SPLEEN AND THE IDEAL; PARISIAN SCENES; WINE; FLOWERS OF EVIL; REVOLT; DEATH; THE WAIFS; Gallantries; Epigraphs; Diverse Pieces; Buffooneries; ADDITIONAL POEMS FROM THE THIRD EDITION OF THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (1868); Explanatory Notes; Index of Titles; Index of First Lines
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, ina conviction that was not overturned until 1949. This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their origin