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The finest translation of Baudelaire in English
This bilingual edition (masterfully translated by Norman Shapiro) carefully transposes the French originals into a formal, poetic English idiom, which captures both the meaning and the music of Baudelaire, the fallen angel and champion of evil. Though conventional in terms of his metrics and poetic forms, Baudelaire is arguably the first great Modernist poet. One dives into the murky miasmata of these pages to discover a world of perverse pleasures, wrathful and sordid imagery and unregenerate vice glorified by one of its most eloquent spokesmen. Baudelaire, a tortured personality, in which profound guilt is contraposed with carnal lust, Satanism, delight in cruelty and a longing for hell, is one of the towering giants of modern European literature. His poetry is a bitter fruit that few can savour with impunity.

By far the best treatment Baudelaire has received in English
Shapiro manages to capture Baudelaire's essence without sacrificing hisform. These versions read like English poetry.They are the best I haveread--and I have read them all, past and present.Highly recommended foradmirers of Baudelaire and students of the craft (and art!) of literarytranslation. ... Read more

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Not The Complete Les Fleurs
I purchased this book, misled (or perhaps just too hopeful) by its title and description, expecting that it would contain facing English translations of *all* the poems in Les Fleurs Du Mal. Imagine my surprise when I opened it up and found only 50 of the 160 or so poems! I hope this brief notice prevents other readers from making a similar error. If you want all the poems, or better still, the complete works, in translation, then you will have to look elsewhere (I don't have a current recommendation, but will post one when I do).

That said, Wallace Fowlie's translations of the 50 selected poems are very accurate, and worth having for that reason alone. These are literal translations (what we used to call "ponies," although I am not sure why, in school.) He renders every line, pretty much word-for-word, into good understandable English, making no attempt to create a "literary" or "poetic" version. I would use these translations simply to check my understanding of the original French, and can recommend them very highly to students for that purpose.

Great Choice of French Poetry
Charles Baudelaire is a one of the finest French poets. Critics refer to his works as "les poemes obscures. If you like Edgar Alan Poe's style, you'll love Baudelaire. I recommend reading 2 poems in particular " La Beaute", and "L'ennemi".

If you are a bilingual reader, I'd recommend buying "Contes Francais". This is, again, a dual-language book with chosen stories from Voltaire, Balzac, Gide, et Camus...

A "success de scandale"...
"All the bourgeois fools who incessantly utter the words immoral, immorality, morality in art, and other silly things remind me of Louise Villedieu, a five franc whore who, when accompanying me one day to the Louvre - where she had never been - started blushing and covering her face; and pulling all the time at my sleeve, she asked, before the immortal statues and paintings, how people could put such obscenities on public display"~Mon Coeur mis a nu (My heart laid bare)

The ministry of interior declared in 1857 that "Les Fleurs du Mal" constituted "an act of defiance in contempt of the laws which safeguard religion and morality" and both Baudelaire, the publisher and the printer was convicted on grounds of immorality, and all available copies of"Les Fleurs du Mal" was confiscated.

The courts verdict stated that whatever mitigating comments "Les Fleurs du Mal" might contain, nothing could dissipate the harmful effects of the images Mr. Baudelaire presents to the reader, and which, in the incriminated poems, inevitably lead to the arousal of the senses by crude and indecent realism.

"You know that I have only considered literature and the arts as pursuing a goal unrelated to morality, and that the beauty of conception and style alone are enough for me." ~ Baudelaire

The ban on the censored poems was not lifted until May 31, 1949!!

With "Les Fleurs du Mal" Baudelaire came to spearhead the Symbolist movement as a reaction against the prevailing naturalism in literature at the time. Baudelaire sublimated debauchery, spleen and hideousness to an art of studied elegance, but people often forget the wicked sense of cynical, black humour permeating many of his poems:

"I've just seen an adorable woman. She has the most beautiful eyes in the world - which she draws with a matchstick - the most provocative eyes - the brilliance of which is the clue solely to the khol on her eyelid - a voluptuous mouth - drawn with cochineal - and, on top of that, not a hair of her own - in short 'A GREAT ARTIST !` "

In Baudelaire's own words "A translation of poetry... may be an enticing dream, but can only ever be a dream" and therefore this dual-language book of "The Flowers of Evil/Les Fleurs du Mal" definetly is the one to get...

The Most Intriguing of Poets
Les Fleurs du Mal is a bittersweet compilation of poems by Charles Baudelaire, the master of forlorn sentiments who lived in Paris around 1850. Unique to his style is a juxtaposition of the realm of nature with that of the modern city (Paris). Baudelaire, like Gaugin, was one of the few artists of his cohort who had traveled out of his usual frame of reference (from Paris to the islands of La Reunion and back to Paris again), instilling in his vision a lust for the exotic and for realms of simple enchantment. While many perceive his works as pessimistic, it seems to me that the elements of humour and sarcasm woven throughout his works reveal an underlying transcendence over any serious lugubrious entrapment. The French-English text here helps to expose what may have been lost or altered in the translation. Ultimately the poems and their English counterparts here maintain the glory of Baudelaire- dark and uncanny rhymes often intertwined with florid beauty and intimations of the untarnished. A timeless works, the Flowers of Evil is sublimely written.

compare original and translation
Very interesting item! The best works by Charles Baudelaire in French original and in English translation. Except the great qualities of Baudelaire's poetry the value of this book is also in the possibility to compare original with translation. There are many academic disputes about translating of poetry. This book is a fine example of an effort to offer every reader a chance to judge for himself about quality of each and every translation. "Flowers of evil" are enough for five stars themselves. What to say then about this book which offers double-language edition of the forst modern collection of poetry and also some additional texts? ... Read more

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Best translation of Baudelaire
This is by far the best translation of Baudelaire's Complete Poems.Not only is the translation achieved in rhymed, metered verse, but Martin captures the essence of this colossus of French poetry.Please ignore "Rosie" the naysayer below who seems to have a limited background in translation, poetry, and Baudelaire.Better yet - here's a challenge for her: Translate Baudelaire's Complete Poems and offer it to the public.After all, you claim to "know French."When you're published we can review your efforts. Ploughshares called Martin's work a "vivid and formally authoritative translation."

This translation is awful-NO STARS!
i LOVE baudelaire but this translation is simply awful! Very bad! I feel like i wasted my money on this book! Its better to stick to translation by Louise Varese or at least stay away from this translation. the language made akward and because i know french and the french version on the opposite page-i can see his translated badly in some parts- sometimes at random-he translates word for word which makes the poem's reading too hard to bear! then other times he takes artistic license! This translator should be locked up for crime against poetry for destroying Baudelaire's work. All I can say to the translator is Shame on YOU!Please do not buy this book- i beg you- or you will not be able to enjoy Baudelaire because he is one of the greatest poets.

Evil Rhymes
What I like best about this admittedly eccentric translation is the way Walter Martin renders the poems in rhyme.Baudelaire's extreme content--his embrace of putrefaction, filth, sadism and ennui as fit stuff for poetry--owes much of its impact to the tight, disciplined meter he chose for his medium.Most Baudelaire translations don't capture this classical edge in English, turning the poems into free verse or prose.While Martin has to bend the exact meaning a little (often a lot) to get the English to fit, on the whole he does an impressive job of making the verse sound exact and controlled but not too sing-songy.There's no ponderous introduction to bug you either, just a short & highly personal 'Afterthoughts' section with some intriguing insights.This isn't the only translation you'll want to read, but it recovers a side of modernity's bad boy that's hard to find anywhere else.

Good effort at translation
This is the first complete translation of Les Fleurs du Mal that I've seen which captures both Baudelaire's symbolic rhyming and his strict syllable count (10 per line in this edition vs. Baudelaire's usual 12).

Martin's translation could be improved by following Baudelaire's order of ideas and literal diction more closely, but he captures the spirit of each poem in a way that makes this volume stand out from most of the previous efforts I've seen.

If you're looking for a Baudelaire translation by a single author, this is a good one to buy. ... Read more

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Modern versus Contemporary critical reflections/debates on the Arts
This book was a historical landmark in the beginnings of modern criticism, and is seen as a pioneering benchmark for artistic reference. Its relevance today is that its poetic language or vernacular manages to engage the reader in a strange relationship with contemporary art criticism, opening up all kinds of possiblities for the artist(s)/curator who wishes to broaden their historical frames of reference. It is then a specialists book that equally throws light onto our times, it is up to the reader of course on how far their imagination can accomodate this. I recommend this book to anyone with an open mind who is curious about how past and present times are constructed, viewed and discussed. ... Read more

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Trauma, indeed!
Adorned with a title that sounds like it was borrowed from Enya's last album, Ulrich Baer's derivative pastiche "Remnants of Song" is appallingly preachy and reductive, politically dubious in the extreme, mind-numbingly repetitive, and written in a style that lowers English critical prose to new levels of lumbering inelegance. For something worthwhile on Baudelaire, look at work by Susan Blood, Ross Chambers, Sartre . . . or anyone else, for that matter! "Remnants of Song" raises (lowers?) the bar in the writing-the-disaster department -- my nominee for the 2003 Residual Culture Award.

baudelaire is brought out of darkness into the light
when i say baudelaire is brought into the light, i mean that his work is described lucidly and criticized empathetically. the author took special pains to understand the conditions in which baudelaire wrote, and sought to bring fresh perspectives to his analyses of the works sited. i agree with another reviewer of this work who commented that his favorite section concerns the sky -- the treatment of the horizon, frames, and clouds is wonderfully clever. as a dancer and choreographer who enjoys using the imagery of poetry i found this to be one of the most helpful discussions of baudelaire's work available to me. i believe this text would be useful not only to students and lovers of poetry, but also to other artists who would like a multi-faceted reading of some very complicated and layered poems. i must confess that i did not read the sections pertaining to celan, because i am specifically focusing my personal research on baudelaire. i cannot speak for the quality of the discussions in the latter half of the book, but i can highly recommend this text to those interested in baudelaire.

Almost Traumatically Beautiful
In short, this is the best book ever written on Baudelaire and Celan. Baer articulates very complex and subtle ideas, but his prose is clear and inviting. This is for those who are interested in not only these particular poets, but also issues of "memory" and just "poetry" at large. I particulary love the third chapter "Blindness and the Sky" and the fifth chapter "Landscape and Memory." Considering that poetry is on the verge of extinction in our contemporary, it may be urgent to read this book right now. ... Read more

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Worth reading from excellent publisher
A great writer known primarily for his poetry reflect upon addictive substances, their effects, and their dangers. Insightful, timely, and an interesting take, Hesperus continues to publish excellent short unknown translations. Archipelago books does even better with their longer, wider ranging translations, beautifully produced.

Essential Background
Essential background reading for anyone at all interested in Baudelaire - after all, one of his fondest sayings was 'Enivrez-vous!' - 'Get drunk!', and he often celebrated intoxicated states in remarkable style. Although he is not to be side-lined as a writer whose whole scope consists of these intoxicated states - there was a recent biography which put forward the case that his whole significance as a writer was that of a drug-addict - these states do form an integral part of, as it were 'Baudelaire-land', and it is essential to understand them in order to understand Baudelaire as a poet and thinker. Here, in an attractive hesperus volume, we have him writing directly about intoxicated states, in a fascinating insight into the workings of his mind, his time in Paris, and his attitudes towards alcohol and drugs. Well worth buying.

Gastric Memoir
Think of this short piece more as a culinary review than a work of philosophy or fiction or even memoir.Baudelaire speaks to the pros and cons of both Wine and Hashish as well as the impact of both on the body.In addition, he dabbles in satire and social insight, giving the reader a wonderful view of his life, opinions and experiences.

Classic
This is Baud writing about his experiences with Hashish and Wine. It is very poetic and very enjoyable with lots of memorable quotes.

Oh Great Hashish! ... Read more

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Walter Benjamin's essays on the great French lyric poet Charles Baudelaire revolutionized not just the way we think about Baudelaire, but our understanding of modernity and modernism as well. In these essays, Benjamin challenges the image of Baudelaire as late-Romantic dreamer, and evokes instead the modern poet caught in a life-or-death struggle with the forces of the urban commodity capitalism that had emerged in Paris around 1850. The Baudelaire who steps forth from these pages is the flâneur who affixes images as he strolls through mercantile Paris, the ragpicker who collects urban detritus only to turn it into poetry, the modern hero willing to be marked by modern life in its contradictions and paradoxes. He is in every instance the modern artist forced to commodify his literary production: "Baudelaire knew how it stood with the poet: as a flâneur he went to the market; to look it over, as he thought, but in reality to find a buyer." Benjamin reveals Baudelaire as a social poet of the very first rank.

The introduction to this volume presents each of Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire in chronological order. The introduction, intended for an undergraduate audience, aims to articulate and analyze the major motifs and problems in these essays, and to reveal the relationship between the essays and Benjamin's other central statements on literature, its criticism, and its relation to the society that produces it.

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Benjamin On Baudelaire
It is difficult to review a book that, however important, one disagrees with so profoundly. Walter Benjamin, an early 20th century (between WWI and WWII) German socialist, is justifiably considered one of the most influential critics of Baudelaire. But reading his essays with an open mind (honest!), all I could think of was how silly those old-time, Marxist and Freudian notions appeared to me, and how little they illuminated Baudelaire's poetry for a 21st-century reader.

On the good side, Michael Jennings' editorship is superb: the best modern scholar of Benjamin, he's given us an excellent redaction of Benjamin's German text into modern English, with fine and clear translations by several authors and a complete and illuminating 80 pages worth of notes.

Anyone who really loves poetry should avoid, at any cost, contaminating their minds with 20th century lit crit. But if, for whatever reason, you can't help yourself, and you absolutely must have an English translation of Walter Benjamin's essays on Baudelaire, then this is the edition to get!

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1919. Charles Baudelaire was a 19th century French poet, translator, literary and art critic. Known for his highly controversial, and often dark poetry, 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. His reputation rests primarily on The Flowers of Evil, which was perhaps the most important and influential poetry collection published in Europe in the 19th century. Similarly, his Little Prose Poems was the most successful and innovative early experiment in prose poetry of the time. Both of these works are contained in this volume. ... Read more

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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 particular) is my favorite.

Very few other french works matter compared to this,
The flowers of evil is simply the single greatest book in all of french literature.Read it & agree. ... Read more

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Baudelaire's sensitivity and despair revealed
I am almost finished reading this.I found the picture on the cover of "Paris Spleen" scintillating, with Baudelaire's debased-looking image peering out of the cover (my husband said it looked "honest").I always thought of Baudelaire as a decadent and sardonic man of sorts, but after reading some of his writings here, I can say he was very sensitive and profound in many ways, and, like myself and others, he wished to "escape" the daily world and the daily rut of the city he belonged to.At best, his despair is something akin to the world-weariness of Poe.

The classic translation.
An elegant, accurate, and readable translation of this wonderful little book that can revolutionize your way of seeing and thinking.Some newer, and in some ways, better translations have appeared since this one became the "standard," but it's still a good buy and a sure bet for reading pleasure.

poems in prose
Yes, Baudelaire, himself told to his friend Troubat:"These are The flowers of evil again, but with more freedom,much more detailes, and much more mockery". Noone before Baudelaire has ever concepted the poem in prose which would express so many special, original and protesting sensations. This urban, very personal poetry is a product of the metropolitan noisy atmosphere, and as it is surrounded with fog of overpopulated, but yet unexplored areas.This poetry expresses more than the actual meaning of the words is telling.Spleen is created of prose and pure poetry, of the reflection of the analytical spirit and intuitive introspection.The apostle of pain and depression,Baudelaire is the one who analyzes his own and other people's sins, expresses himself as a moralist in this book as well.

Baudelaire Vents His Spleen at the Outside World
The book that helped me overcome my prejudice against poetry--I carried "Paris Spleen" around with me for a couple of weeks after I first read it, and kept turning back to certain poems as I went about my dailyerrands.Even though it's nearly 150 years old it seems as timely andcontemporary as it must have seemed when it was first published--absolutelytop-notch.

Make sure to get the Varese translation!
This is a wonderful book -- Baudelaire's prose poems perfectly capture the spirit of 19th century Paris as it rushes into modernism.Don't be seduced by prettier editions of this book -- it is crucial to get the Varesetranslation!Also, Walter Benjamin's early to mid twentieth centurycritique of Baudelarie should not be missed. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Best Book By The Creator of Modern Poetry!
Baudelaire is credited, along with Whitman and Dickinson, with being the inventor of modern poetry.I wish someone would actually explain why modern poetry begins with him. (email anyone?)

But this book really is great.Get the Everyman's Pocket Poet's version.It's got all (or almost all, I haven't counted) of Baudelaire's masterpiece "Les Fleur Du Mal," in a good translation by Richard Howard (though also check out Norman Shapiro's). And it has selections from Michael Hamburger's wonderful translation of Baudelaire's prose poems, "Le Spleen Du Paris."The best of these is "GET DRUNK," or "Enivrez-vous!"It begins:

One should always be drunk.That's all that matters; that's our one imperative need.So as not to feel Time's horrible burden that breaks your shoulders and bows you down, you must get drunk without ceasing. ....

Baudelaire was full of dark energy like that.It disgusts and attracts.When it gets tiresome--and, like too much honey and too much Delacroix, reading about maggots eating lovers' flesh, will get tiresome--just put it down.When you pick it up you'll get some fresh insights.How fresh?As fresh as the in simile B. uses in "the Vampire": "bind[ing] me . . . as gambler to his winning streak."Nicely done.Plus the book is small so you can sneak it into work and easily goof off.

don't forget translators' names
this translation was produced by a contemporory American poet Richard Howard, whose poems were included in the Norton Anthology of English Poetry. - English is my third language. - I agree with the review ofHoward's version in'Baudelaire in English'.

Buy this now.
the "Everyman's" series is the best stocking stuffers ever created.I am a bit of a Baudelaire buff, and I must say, this small version is perhaps my favorite.There is not much else to say.I havespent the time sorting through the poorly translated, badly misquotedversions of Flowers of Evil.Learn from my mistake.Pass by the frilly,big, seventeen color dustjacket editions and buy this little guy.It willnot dissapoint you. Good day.

a journey 4 those mentally & spirtually willing and able
The images containd in this book are frighteningly familiar and distanlty arranged. With every page the reader will be forced to go wherever the lines may travel. To and fro the words swagger and stumble. Gifted andpitiful, sad scenes flood out onto the page. Sexual-sciFi, erotica at it'sfinest before it ever had a name. Psycho-manipulative and potent. At timesit will make you laugh, both in humor and in disgust. A definite add-on toany literate collector of art. Intense and a very fine book of scatteredwisdom. ... Read more

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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 next best thing.By seeing Baudie from multiple perspectives, translated over several generations, you really get a better sense of his poems than any one translator could give you.On top of that, the editors do a great job of giving minimal-but-effective background material.

Should you choose to explore further, you are armed with knowledge of how each translator approached his or her task.This is invaluable.It lead me, for example, to F.P. Sturm's translations, which I never otherwise would have known about.Excellent! 5/5 stars.

translation in cultural perspective
Prof Carol Clark and Prof Robert Sykes in their 40-page introduction put the English translation of Baudelaire in a cultural perspective.Excellent example of translation studies. ... Read more

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This bold new translation with facing French text restores once banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection. ... Read more

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McGowan's Baudelaire
Every translation of poetry is a compromise - on the one hand, the translator wants to "carry over" (the literal meaning of "translation") the poet's words and meaning exactly, but on the other hand, the translator also wants to create a poem that is as beautiful as the original! It is not an easy task.

McGowan's 1993 translation, into rhyming and metrical English verse, leans to the "literal" end of this spectrum. He renders Baudelaire's words, images, and verse closely enough that the reader can get a pretty reliable idea of the original. Although this is a faithful translation that stays away from "poetic license" and flights of fancy, it still reads well in English.

As an example of its acceptance in the world of Baudelaire studies, McGowan's translation is the one that is used by "The Cambridge Companion to Baudelaire" (ed. Rosemary Lloyd, 2005) for all quotations from Les Fleurs du Mal. If I could only have one English-language translation of Baudelaire in my library, this would be a good first choice.

The lurid and arabesque world of Baudelaire
Such a great price for a book with so much superb poetry!I really love Poe and the decadent poets and French Symbolists, and this book is a great introduction to the works of Baudelaire.I first picked this up in a library in Canada, then got a copy of it for myself when I returned back home.The cover art is nice too -- it seems to reflect that exotic world of poisons and deadly flowers that seem so representative of Baudelaire; however, there are also some very spiritual poems here that show how multifaceted he was as an artist.I highly recommend this book, if only for the price itself.

A 2007 review
I am disappointed by this translation. It being the Oxford World Classic by James McGowan. I compared some of McGowan's word choices when he switched from the French to English (the French text is beside English). I switched them back again by inserting Baudelaire's original word in the sentence (an exact English equivalent in spelling at times) and the line went from meek to brazen! Why would McGowan change something like that when the original poet is the master? McGowan should have trusted Baudelaire's work to shine through on its own. As a result, the edge was taken off the blade.

Mistaken identity
None of the reader reviews below (prior to August 2006, the month of this translation's publication), have anything to do with this translation by Keith Waldrop.So read it for yourself, or wait for reviews by those that have.All translations of foreign language poetry into English have differences--especially as here where one is done in versets--and a review of one translation cannot suffice for another.

Absolutely essential reading
We adore Baudelaire, and this edition is superb.It's essential reading for lovers of France, of the 19th century, of decadence, and of evocative poetry.Fabulous! ... Read more

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"Man is an animal which adores"
Living from 1821 to 1867, primarily in Paris.Charles Baudelaire was his centuries poet of discontent.Religious, blasphemous, elitist and anti-snob, all at once, he seemed from the start to be a life driven to self-destruction.Absinthe, opium, and a mistress were his only relief.And in the end, the were what killed him.The epitome of the tortured soul.

Most of us know of him now only by reputation, or from exposure to Fleurs du Mal.That thin volume of poetry has had an influence far beyond it's size.In many ways, Baudelaire was one of the beat generation's greatest precursors.

The Intimate Journals is actually a collection of three sets of papers that frame the final years of Baudelaire's excruciating journey.They are the notes of a man who faced financial and physical ruin and yet still kept up his piercing intellect.In it you will find short notes essays about his world, society, and philosophy.

This isn't poetry, but a direct look into the inner thinking of a poet who is often written off as the perfect degenerate.Intimate Journals offers an opportunity to re-evaluate Baudelaire as both a man and a writer, whose thinking is equally compelling a century and a half later.

The preface written by translator Christopher Isherwood, and W. H. Auden's introduction are brilliant on their own as well (T. S. Eliot wrote the original introduction for the first edition).

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, hisennui, his mistress, his mother...all these cast a definitely"intimate" hue to the pages that are essential for any readerwishing to come to terms with Baudelaire's psyche: to see why hisself-destruction was inseparable from his creations.For they were bothnecessary symptoms of his sensibility -an immaculately modernsensibility.The fragmented nature of the writings prevents the work fromactually being a "work" - it is more like an authentic gesture,an unpremeditated act of self revelation.A fascinating and ultimatelyharrowing document from a poet - nothing more. ... Read more

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