Research Catalog

Title

The flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire ; selected and edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867

Publication

• [New York] : New Directions, [1963]
• ©1962

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Mathews, Marthiel
• Mathews, Jackson
• Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
• Kuhlman, Gilda
• New Directions Publishing, publisher.
• James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Description

xxxi, 448 pages; 21 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.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• French poetry > 19th century > Translations
• French poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry.
• Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1963.
• Translations.

Note

• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin at Norfolk, Connecticut" -- title page verso.

Indexed In (note)

• Carruth, H. New Directions reader
• Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Source (note)

• Robert A. Wilson;

Language (note)

• Text in English and French.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-559 bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gilda Kuhlman.

Call Number

D-14 5774

LCCN

63000109

OCLC

761870

Author

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867, author.

Title

The flowers of evil / Charles Baudelaire ; selected and edited by Marthiel and Jackson Mathews.

Publisher

[New York] : New Directions, [1963]

Copyright Date

©1962

Edition

Revised edition.

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 56

Language

Text in English and French.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-559 bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gilda Kuhlman. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-559 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Inscribed on free front endpaper in black ink, "Jackson Mathews kindly dared me to try the three translations included here. I am not much satisfied with the version of Correspondances, and suspect that it really can't be done. RIchard Wilbur."

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Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Mathews, Marthiel, editor.

Mathews, Jackson, editor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Kuhlman, Gilda, bookjacket designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

Wilson, Robert A. former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Other Form:

Online version: Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867. Flowers of evil. Rev. ed. [New York] New Directions [1963, ©1962] (OCoLC)655030604

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-559

D-14 5774

D-14 8139

Berg Coll Wilbur ZC6 F69 1963