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The Flowers of Evil »

Authors: Charles Baudelaire
ISBN-13: 9780199535583, ISBN-10: 0199535582
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2008
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) is most famous for his groundbreaking collection of verse The Flowers of Evil, but his essays, translations, and prose poems have been equally influential.

Book Synopsis

In the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal) by Charles

Baudelaire.

	Dedication	3
	To the reader	5
	Benediction	9
	The albatross	12
	Elevation	13
	Correspondences	14
	"I like to bring to mind ..."	15
	Beacon lights	16
	Sick muse	18
	Mercenary muse	19
	The bad monk	20
	The enemy	21
	Bad luck	22
	The life before	23
	Gypsy travelers	24
	Man and sea	25
	Don Juan in hell	26
	Pride punished	27
	Beauty	28
	The ideal	29
	Giantess	30
	The mask	31
	Hymn to beauty	33
	Exotic perfume	34
	Hair	35
	"I adore you ..."	37
	"You would take the whole universe ..."	38
	Sed non satiata	39
	"In her flowing pearly garments ..."	40
	Dancing serpent	41
	Carrion	42
	De Profundis Clamavi	44
	Vampire	45
	"One night while I lay ..."	46
	Posthumous remorse	47
	The cat	48
	Duel	49
	The balcony	50
	The possessed	51
	A phantom	52
	"I give you these verses ..."	54
	Semper Eadem	55
	Altogether	56
	"What will you say this evening ..."	57
	Living torch	58
	Reversibility	59
	Confession	60
	Spiritual dawn	62
	Evening's harmony	63
	Flask	64
	Poison	65
	Sky in confusion	66
	Cat	67
	The fine-looking ship	69
	Invitation to the voyage	71
	The irreparable	72
	Conversation	74
	Autumn song	75
	To a Madonna	77
	Afternoon song	79
	Sisina	80
	Franciscae Meae Laudes	81
	To a creole lady	83
	Moesta et Errabunda	84
	Revenant	85
	Autumn sonnet	86
	The sorrowing moon	87
	Cats	88
	Owls	89
	The pipe	90
	Music	91
	Burial	92
	A fantasy print	93
	Dead man glad	94
	The vessel of hate	95
	The cracked bell	96
	Spleen	97
	Spleen	98
	Spleen	99
	Spleen	100
	Obsession	101
	The taste for nothing	102
	Alchemy of pain	103
	Sympathetic horror	104
	Heautontimoroumenos	105
	Beyond remedy	106
	The clock	108
	Landscape	111
	The sun	112
	To a redheaded beggar girl	113
	The swan	115
	The seven old men	117
	The little old women	119
	The blind	122
	To a woman passing by	123
	The skeleton laborer	124
	Evening twilight	125
	Gambling	126
	Danse macabre	127
	Love of a lie	129
	"I have not forgotten ..."	130
	"The big-hearted servant ..."	131
	Fog, rain	132
	Paris dream	133
	Morning twilight	135
	The soul of the wine	139
	The ragpicker's wine	140
	The assassin's wine	142
	The wine of the solitary	144
	The wine of lovers	145
	Destruction	149
	A martyr	150
	Women damned	152
	The two good sisters	153
	The fountain of blood	154
	Allegory	155
	His Beatrice	156
	A voyage to Cythera	157
	Love and the skull	159
	Saint Peter's denial	163
	Abel and Cain	165
	Litanies of satan	167
	The death of lovers	173
	Death of the poor	174
	The death of artists	175
	End of day	176
	Dream of a curious character	177
	The voyage	178
	Lesbos	185
	Women damned	188
	Lethe	191
	To her, too merry	192
	The jewels	193
	Metamorphoses of the vampire	194

Subjects

Poetry

French Poetry

French poetry -> 19th century
Fiction Books & Literature