Description
Baudelaire’s masterpiece Les Fleur du Mal, was considered decadent and obscene when first published in 1857. Banned in France for nearly a century Baudelaire is now recognised to be one of the nineteenth century’s most influential poets.
This unique collection captures the fevered spirit of the transition from Romanticism to Modernism with authoritative interpretations of fifty-one poems from Flowers of Evil. Additionally fourteen prose poems from the posthumously published Paris Spleen offer poignant reflections on the city and its humbler denizens.
