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Flowers of evil = Fleurs du mal

Title
Flowers of evil = Fleurs du mal / with translations by Geoffrey Wagner and an introduction by Enid Starkie.
Author
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867
Publication
  • Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1946]
  • ©1946

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Additional Authors
  • Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling
  • Starkie, Enid
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • General Offset Company, printer.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
116 unnumbered pages; 18 cm
Summary
Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in a great metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.
Uniform Title
Fleurs du mal. Selections. English & French
Alternative Title
  • Fleurs du mal.
  • Selected poems from Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Subject
  • Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 > Translations
  • French poetry > 19th century > Translations
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Dust jackets (Binding) – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1946.
Note
  • Date of publication and pagination from Carruth.
  • "New Directions, the new classics" -- title page.
Indexed In (note)
  • Carruth, H. New Directions reader
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Language (note)
  • Parallel text in French and English on facing pages.
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' maroon cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig.
Call Number
C-13 3193
LCCN
48000126
OCLC
18898550
Author
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867, author.
Title
Flowers of evil = Fleurs du mal / with translations by Geoffrey Wagner and an introduction by Enid Starkie.
Publisher
Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1946]
Copyright Date
©1946
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 221
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 15
Language
Parallel text in French and English on facing pages.
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-556 bound in publishers' maroon cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-556 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Added Author
Wagner, Geoffrey Atheling, translator.
Starkie, Enid, author of introduction.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Lustig, Alvin, 1915-1955, bookjacket designer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
General Offset Company, printer.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Other Title
Selected poems from Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-556
C-13 3193
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