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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... More

When Flowers of Evil was first published in 1857, the book almost immediately became the subject of an obscenity trial, and for several generations afterward its themes of eroticism, lesbianism, revolt and decay earned the author a reputation for depravity and morbidity. It was not until 1949 that t... More

Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the str... More

Sex and death, rebellion, corruption -- the themes of Charles Baudelaire's sensual poems sparked outrage upon their 1857 debut. His masterpiece, Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), was dismissed as decadent and obscene and banned in France for nearly a century. Although Baudelaire died in obscurity... More

Anthology containing: Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire Illuminations for Fanfarlo by Charles Baudelaire... More

One of the founding texts of literary modernism. Set in a modern, urban Paris, the prose pieces in this volume constitute a further exploration of the terrain Baudelaire had covered in his verse masterpiece, The Flowers of Evil: the city and its squalor and inequalities, the pressures of time and mo... More

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new--and in his own words "dangerous"--hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side stre... More

The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire's first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as ... More

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 of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the ... More

Renowned poet Charles Baudelaire played a significant role in introducing Edgar Allan Poe to French readers by publishing widely read criticisms and translations of Poe's writings. The two writers shared an appreciation for the exotic, a taste for morbid subjects, and a devotion to artistic purity. ... More

Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, which in successive editions contained all of his published poems, has opened new vistas for man's imagination and quickened the sensibilities of poets everywhere. The greatest French poet of the 19th century, Baudelaire was also the first truly modem poet, and his direct... More

Ideas que han cambiado el mundo A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los demás. Han inspirado el debate, la discordia, la guerra y la revolución. Han iluminado, indignado, provocado y consolado. Han enri... More

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «El Poeta es igual a este rey de las nubesque se ríe de las flechas y vence el temporal;desterrado en la tierra y en medio de las gentes,sus alas de gigante le impiden caminar.» Padre de la modernidad y poeta maldito por excelencia, Baudelaire abrió las puertas a ... More

42 flores de mal es un volumen de la colección «Poesía portátil» que reúne algunos de los versos más distintivos de los célebres poemarios de Baudelaire Las flores del mal, El spleen de París y Los paraísos artificiales. 42 poemas que abren las puertas al universo descarnado del poeta maldito por ... More

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (* 9. April 1821 in Paris; † 31. August 1867 ebenda) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten französischen Lyriker und als wichtiger Wegbereiter der literarischen Moderne in Europa. “Bei den in Anwesenheit des Königs von Neapel währen... More

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (* 9. April 1821 in Paris; † 31. August 1867 ebenda) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten französischen Lyriker und als wichtiger Wegbereiter der literarischen Moderne in Europa. “Bei den in Anwesenheit des Königs von Neapel währen... More

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) hat überwiegend in Paris gelebt, wo er das väterliche Erbe als Großstadtdandy durchbrachte. Er war auch tätig als Kunstkritiker, übersetzte Poe und entdeckte die Musik Richard Wagners für Frankreich. Baudelaires Essay "Die künstlichen Paradiese" ist ein großer Lobgesan... More

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire (* 9. April 1821 in Paris; † 31. August 1867 ebenda) war ein französischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt heute als einer der bedeutendsten französischen Lyriker und als wichtiger Wegbereiter der literarischen Moderne in Europa. “Bei den in Anwesenheit des Königs von Neapel währen... More

Für den Leser Dummheit, Irrtum, Sünde, Sparsamkeit, Beschäftige unseren Geist und arbeite unseren Körper, Und wir nähren unsere freundliche Reue, Als Bettler füttern sie ihr Ungeziefer. Unsere Sünden sind hartnäckig, unsere Reue ist feige; Wir werden für unsere Geständnisse gut bezahlt, Und wir betr... More

Es una obra cumbre de la poesía moderna. Sus composiciones rompen con el estilo convencional, en uso hasta entonces, y rejuvenecen la estructura del verso mediante el uso regular de encabalgamientos, rechazos y contrarrechazos. Esto renueva la forma rígida del soneto. Utiliza imágenes sugestivas med... More

People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the ... More