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 Publishing Corporation, [1975]

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.

Genre/Form

Dust jackets (Binding) – New York (State) – New York – 1975.

Note

• Not in Harrison; probable date of publication from postcard found inside volume.
• "A New Directions book" -- title page.
• "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.

Language (note)

• Text in English and French.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Berg Coll 22-561 bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gilda Kuhlman.

Call Number

Berg Coll 22-561

OCLC

1361809939

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 Publishing Corporation, [1975]

Edition

Revised edition, third printing.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in English and French.

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-561 bound in publishers' black cloth; with original dust jacket designed by Gilda Kuhlman. NN

Local Note

Copy in Berg Coll 22-561 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-561 has picture postcard of Aspen Amphitheatre tent with notation in ink: "1975 Reprint, Seems to be same except for different binding cloth."

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.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll 22-561