books by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (writings verlaine selected)

books by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

books:

2 reviews
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Penguin Classics, 1996

Excellent English Translation!
This version of selected works is one of the best French to English translations of Baudelaire I've come across. The text is not manipulated to rhyme in English as it does in French, and therefore is much more representative (in meaning) of the work in it's native language. I'm not much of a poetry reader, but next to Leaves of Grass by Whitman, this (the selections from "The Flowers of Evil" in ...

Intimate Journals (Syren)

2 reviews
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Penguin Classics, 1996

A crystalline fragment of aesthetic sensibility.
This is the document of a poet consecrating himself to memory. His attempt to maintain perspective; his aesthetic self objectification that is repeatedly shattered when he looks into society; his Catholocism, his ennui, his mistress, his mother...all these cast a definitely "intimate" hue to the pages that are essential for any reader wishing to come to terms with Baudelaire's psyche: to see ...

Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature (Penguin Classics)
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Penguin Classics, 1993

Baudelaire: Les Fleurs Du Mal (French Texts (Focus)) (French Texts (Focus)) (French Texts (Focus))
Charles Pierre Baudelaire

Duckworth Publishing, 1995

Modern poetry begins with Charles Baudelaire (1821-67), who employed his unequalled technical mastery to create the shadowy, desperately dramatic urban landscape -- populated by the addicted and the damned -- which so compellingly mirrors our modern condition. Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.

Baudelaire in English (Poets in Translation, Penguin)

2 reviews
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

Penguin Classics, 1998

The best way to meet Baudelaire
This is the book that introduced me to Penguin's wonderful Poets in Translation series. I've been hooked ever since. With brief introductions placing the translator in proper context, the anthology moves through all Baudelaire's major poems, dwelling with multiple translations and comparisons to the original on a few key favorites. If you can't read French (and believe me I can't), this is the ...

Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems

2 reviews
Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, ...

Citadel Press, 2000

poets of evil
I think I have a better instinctual understand of these "decadents" who were the clear marking of the break between the old aesthetic rationality and the surrealism, symbolism, etc. that followed--those who actually blend the periods, smudge and blur the two worldviews, like Poe and Blake and, here, Baudelaire do. I like Baudelaire's phantasmagoria, his exoticism put in service of delivering a ...