The poem over which I have shed the most tears Excellent writer Excellent translator Excellent collection Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition current subway read my fellow travelers must think me crazy to read the french out loud on the rush hour train very proud of how much i can actually understand Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition I enjoyed the Richard Howard translation.

This is a set text on my university degree course History of Art and French studies and I just want to say that despite the fact I love this sort of poetry full stop you really lose a lot in any translation If you are thinking of taking up French so that you can read this in the original language it might well be worth it The only thing I m disappointed about in this edition is that several poems from Les Fleurs du Mal appear to be missing from the collection However having the dual language feature is a good idea whichever language you intend to read it in Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition I ve only read the first and largest section Spleen et IdealeOnce the poems were well analysed in class I definitely appreciated the imagery a lot than the first time I read these poems Baudelaire does tell a story in his poems but you have to stop to truly appreciate his stories They have a clear idea or message in them to be discovered. L Albatros and Spleen IV are probably my favourite poems in here Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition I absolutely love this book Both earthy and sexual it seems to encompass nearly every human emotion I also found it fun and interesting to glimpse Paris and its people in an earlier time I highly recommend this book which I ll read again and again Also this version mirrors each page in the original French Sadly I don t speak that language but it must be wonderful to be able to read these poems in both languages and to evaluate the translation which seemed outstanding to me Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition Wat een schoonheid en een spicy mening over de Belgen Zeer genietbaar niet verschrikkelijk moeilijk en aan eender welk tempo te lezen Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition Oh to have lived with the crowd at H tel de Lauzun during the hey day I can only live through the remaining texts via the many translations to be honest though this has only pushed further desire to read of Comte de Lautr amont Les Chants de Maldoror though there s sadly not much to drown myself in. I didn t read the Spleen of Paris on this Dover edition nor will I yet read the Paris Spleen Louise Var se edition by New Directions as I have copies of both and there s mismatches on what s included some are missing and some are available between each. Until I figure out the complete set I m for now done with either Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet translator and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal 1857 The Flowers of Evil which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century Similarly his Petits po mes en prose 1868 Little Prose Poems was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Known for his highly controversial and often dark poetry as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe Baudelaires life was filled with drama and strife from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy Long after his death many look upon his name as representing d Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet translator and literary and art critic whose reputation rests primarily on Les Fleurs du Mal 1857 The Flowers of Evil which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century Similarly his Petits po mes en prose 1868 Little Prose Poems was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Known for his highly controversial and often dark poetry as well as his translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe Baudelaire s life was filled with drama and strife from financial disaster to being prosecuted for obscenity and blasphemy Long after his death many look upon his name as representing depravity and vice Others see him as being the poet of modern civilization seeming to speak directly to the 20th century site_link Controversial book of verse first published in 1857 presented in a handsome dual language edition together with superb selection of great French poet s other works prose poems from Spleen of Paris critical essays on art music and literature as well as personal letters Line by line English translation with original French text on facing page Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition The only book I carry with me for posterity and easy access wherever I go for an extended amount of time It is an anthology of most all of the poems and some essays and letters that Charles Baudelaire the mother fixated French Poe contemporary composed in his lifetime The Albatross Baudelaire s most famous piece is included of course but seated beside the other great poems in this catalogue its sparkle seems almost dull My favorites all herald from the poet s greatest collection the Fleurs Du Mal To the Reader The Blessing and The Voyage the latter of which is in my opinion the finest poem written the poem I can t help but read aloud no matter if I am in public and would recommend it for the beginning Baudelaire reader The language in this version feels chopped and as if liberties in the French were taken Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition I finally finished Les Fleurs du Mal which I read during the stray hours I had each week in between classes reading that is while colleagues and co workers spent their valuable time scheming and scamming I suspect Sic academia transit Just kidding of course They are noble creatures Or so they insistAt any rate I read the poems in French using the English as a crutch This helped since the vocabulary is a bit strange This volume fulfills its function beautifully and that s what the five stars are for I couldn t care less how one judges the quality of the English qua poetry The translations were calibrated perfectly to helping one go smoothly and accurately through the French That s all that counts So two thumbs up for Wallace Fowlie. Much of the poetry with a few exceptions left me cold so once again my limitations my lack of familiarity with Modernism my lack of sympathy for Romanticism in general were on full display There were a few however that I liked very much as I noted in passing and the last five really knocked me out esp La Malabaraise for obvious reasons. which I shall not expound upon here Recueillement Le Gouffre and Les Plaintes d un Icare Le Soleil moribond s endormir sous une arche ahh I will try to read some of the Po mes en prose Le Spleen since I ve plenty of it these days for obvious reasons which before packing this in It s very helpful to have read this given my attempts to read myself back into the 20th well let s not go overboard let s start with back into the 19th century But once the dual language Rimbaud arrives I ll slowly get started on that I ve also got a dual language Mallarm on the way I think. Obviously Baudelaire s message is pretty simple all this feeling all this sensibility and then death And he is not cannot be reconciled Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition Enough said I m intoxicated I dove deep until my nostrils felt bitter and my eyes blurred And still I couldn t stop Filled with remorse and dreams and curiosity I dove even deeper hoping to be lost and so I did Baudelaire j adore vos po sies Flowers of Evil and Other Works Les Fleurs du Mal et Oeuvres Choisies A Dual Language Book Dover Foreign Language Study Guides English and French Edition