Books by Charles Baudelaire

This selection of poems from "Les Fleurs du mal" demonstrates the range of Baudelaire's gift, from the quatrains to the formal challenges of his sonnets. The poems are presented in both French and English, accompanied by the work of illustrator David Schorr.

Originally published in 1949, this book contains the French text of various essays by Charles Baudelaire. The essays cover a range of topics, from Edgar Allen Poe to Delacroix and Madame Bovary, and the majority are taken from Baudelaire's 1868 publication L'art romantique.

Before publishing Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857, Baudelaire was probably better known to his contemporaries as a critic than as a poet, and the articles translated here by P. E. Charvet illustrate the development of Baudelaire's critical ideas. These essays cover the visual, literary, and musical arts.

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 sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were put on trial for offence to public decency. Six offending poemswere banned, in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949.This bold new translation, which restores the banned poems to their original places and reveals the full richness and variety of the collection, makes available to English speakers a powerful and original version of the world. Jonathan Culler's Introduction outlines this vision, stressing that Baudelaire is more than just the poet of the modern city. Originally to be called `The Lesbians', The Flowers of Evil contains the most extraordinary body of love poetry. The poems also pose thequestion of the role of evil in our lives, of whether there are not external forces working to frustrate human plans and to enlist men and women on appalling or stultifying scenarios not of their own making.

From Edouard Manet to T.S. Eliot to Jim Morrison, the reach of Charles Baudelaire's influence is beyond estimation. In this translation, Baudelaire offers a singular view of 1850s Paris. Evoking a melange of reactions this is a collection of 50 ""fables of modern life"".

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 mortality, and the liberation provided by the sensual delights of intoxication, art, and women. Published posthumously in 1869, Paris Spleen was a landmark publication in the development of the genre of prose poetry-a format which Baudelaire saw as particularly suited for expressing the feelings of uncertainty, flux, and freedom of his age-and one of the founding texts of literary modernism.

Baudelaire i udvalg er anden udvidede udgave af vores populære Udvalgt prosa af Baudelaire der fik seks stjerner i Politiken ved udgivelsen i 2009. Bogen indeholder stadig Udstillingssalonen 1846, Fanfarlo, Parisisk spleen, Det kunstige paradis, Det moderne livs maler, Om latterens essens, essays om Edgar Poe og Théophile Gautier foruden de såkaldte dagbøger Mit nøgne hjerte og Gnister & forslag samt et større udvalg af Baudelaires private korrespondance. Bogen er udvidet med en biografisk introduktion og et større udvalg af digte fra Baudelaires hovedværk Blomster af det onde.Anmeldelse i Politiken:Baudelaire var 1800-tallets rockpoet (2009)

Charles Baudelaire er Frankrigs mest berømte digter. Hans digtning har haft betydning for hele Europa samr den øvrige verden. Først ugleset og forhadt, men derefter løftet op. da Baudelaire udgav digtsamlingen Les Fleurs du mal Baudelaire blev han anklaget for blasfemi og usædelighed. Han blev frifundet for blasfemi, men dømt for usædelighed.Baudelaire er den digter, der tegner modernitetsbegrebet. Hos ham er det et træk hos kunstneren, at han kan beskrive forfaldet og derigennem se en form for skønhed.