#CoverLove #Pink I have multiple translations of this book, someday I need to compare poems side by side .
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#CoverLove #Pink I have multiple translations of this book, someday I need to compare poems side by side .
Feeling very Spleen II tonight.Richard Howard‘s translation of Charles Baudelaire. (Chuck‘s Greatest Hits! )
#OnThisDay in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal was published in France. The volume included almost all of Baudelaire's poetry, and ignited controversy due to its themes of decadence and eroticism. Six of the poems were censored, and were not allowed to be published again until 1949, and Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Victor Hugo described the work as a "new thrill in literature." #HistoryGetsLIT
#NationalPoetryMonth Day 20: It is no exaggeration when I say that I could post a favorite poem daily for a month by exclusively French language authors. Baudelaire was one of my first loves when it comes to poetry, via Richard Howard's impeccable translations. He was one of the first to tackle the alienation & the malaise of modern life. He was roughly 70 years ahead of T.S. Eliot. Link to full poem:
https://poets.org/poem/spleen
#poetrymonth I wish I could find more of these ! Published in 1961 , mass market trim size .Grove Press / Evergreen Books collaboration,the Whitman is Evergreen Profile Book 19 ,the Baudelaire, number 22 in the series . Sigh
Every time a book is featured on one of the Turkish Dizis that I watch, I feel compelled to purchase and read said book. This one made a brief appearance on Monday‘s episode of Çukur so naturally I had to buy it right away. ??
1.) Les Fleurs du Mal
2.) Y: The Last Man; Vol. 1: Unmanned
3.) The Glamourist
#Goodbye2020 @ShyBookOwl
