{"title":"Charles Baudelaire","description":"Charles Baudelaire was the foremost poet of modern French Literature. Known for revolutionizing the tone and content of modern lyric poetry, he was the author of The Flowers of Evil, Paris Spleen, and Artificial Paradises, as well as the epochal essay, \"The Painter of Modern Life.\"","products":[{"product_id":"the-flowers-of-evil-paperback","title":"The Flowers of Evil - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Flowers of Evil, which T.S. 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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 of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. Including the French texts and comprehensive explanatory notes to the poems, this extraordinary body of love poems restores the six poems originally banned in 1857, revealing the richness and variety of the collection. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Series: \u003c\/strong\u003e For over 100 years \u003cstrong\u003eOxford World's Classics\u003c\/strong\u003e has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378183667935,"sku":"9780199535583","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Udu-eR_ua69780199535583.webp?v=1789250793"},{"product_id":"paris-spleen-paperback","title":"Paris Spleen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the 1850s, ancien and Haussmannian Paris clash, giving birth to a violent disjunction. At that moment in time, \u003cem\u003ean other present\u003c\/em\u003e is born, a new history, like Baudelaire's poet freely abandoning his halo on the macadam. The laurel crown has been discarded; the pastoral poet is dead; classical lyric poetry is dead. The steam-driven, gaslit, electrically-charged poet is born. \"Retreat Academic Muse!,\" Baudelaire commands, \"I don't care about that old stutterer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e With \u003cem\u003eParis Spleen\u003c\/em\u003e, we move toward a new rhythm, a rhythm born of the pace, speed, and reality of a metropolis hitherto never seen or experienced. It is the rhythm of the street, of the swift-moving eye, of overloaded senses and hyper-perception, of newspapers and optical devices. Baudelaire's life spans the essential birth of whole new forms of technology, including steam locomotives, gas light, and electricity, not to speak of the typewriter and the Daguerreotype. The dandy sees and moves with the coming speed of light. His life is one lived in the midst of illumination, mechanics, and simulacra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Baudelaire's Paris is a place of experience, a metropolis that spawns unique and particular realities, a kaleidoscope of visions and mirror of alternative societies. The grist of his poems is not ancient Greece or the Renaissance. As he stated in the so-called preface to \u003cem\u003eParis Spleen\u003c\/em\u003e, it is especially from frequenting great cities, from the crossroads of their innumerable relations, that the haunting ideal of the prose poem was born. Our flâneur wanders swiftly through crowds, in contact, but anonymous, extracting from the city material to forge his new ars poetica, like a bricolage artist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The future is called forth. The street is the new Olympus; the phantasmagoric city is a big harlot whose infernal charm continually rejuvenates the poet. The ironic, infernal beacon is the totem of the new age: the age of dissonance, the age of artificial paradises. \"I love you, O infamous capital!\" the poet exults.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here is \u003cem\u003eParis Spleen\u003c\/em\u003e, an invitation to voyage, to have the entirety of Baudelaire's Paris enter into our flesh and for us to undergo contagion, if our spleens can handle it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378315395295,"sku":"9781940625454","price":19.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M_22qUCtWi9781940625454.webp?v=1789254379"},{"product_id":"the-flowers-of-evil-les-fleurs-du-mal-paperback","title":"The Flowers of Evil: (Les Fleurs Du Mal) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown to his contemporaries primarily as an art critic, but ambitious to secure a more lasting literary legacy, Charles Baudelaire, a Parisian bohemian, spent much of the 1840s composing gritty, often perverse, poems that expressed his disgust with the banality of modern city life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1857, the book that collected these poems together, \u003cem\u003eLes Fleurs du mal\u003c\/em\u003e, was an instant sensation--earning Baudelaire plaudits and, simultaneously, disrepute. Only a year after Gustave Flaubert had endured his own public trial for published indecency (for \u003cem\u003eMadame Bovary\u003c\/em\u003e), a French court declared \u003cem\u003eLes Fleurs du mal\u003c\/em\u003e an offense against public morals and six poems within it were immediately suppressed (a ruling that would not be reversed until 1949, nearly a century after Baudelaire's untimely death). Subsequent editions expanded on the original, including new poems that have since been recognized as Baudelaire's masterpieces, producing a body of work that stands as the most consequential, controversial, and influential book of poetry from the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcclaimed translator and poet Aaron Poochigian tackles this revolutionary text with an ear attuned to Baudelaire's lyrical innovations--rendering them in \"an assertive blend of full and slant rhymes and fluent iambs\" (A. E. Stallings)--and an intuitive feel for the work's dark and brooding mood. Poochigian's version captures the incantatory, almost magical, effect of the original--reanimating for today's reader Baudelaire's \"unfailing vision\" that \"trumpeted the space and light of the future\" (Patti Smith).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn introduction by Dana Gioia offers a probing reassessment of the supreme artistry of Baudelaire's masterpiece, and an afterword by Daniel Handler explores its continued relevance and appeal. Featuring the poems in English and French, this deluxe dual-language edition allows readers to commune both with the original poems and with these electric, revelatory translations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378336563423,"sku":"9781324092919","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VlFNwcsy3O9781324092919.webp?v=1789254432"},{"product_id":"the-flowers-of-evil-les-fleurs-du-mal-english-and-french-edition-paperback","title":"The Flowers of Evil \/ Les Fleurs du Mal (English and French Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eUpon its original publication in 1857 Charles Baudelaire's \"Les Fleurs du Mal\" or \"The Flowers of Evil\" was embroiled in controversy. Within a month of its publication the French authorities brought an action against the author and the book's publisher claiming that the work was an insult to public decency. Eventually the French courts would acknowledge the literary merit of Baudelaire's work but ordered that six poems in particular should be banned from subsequent publication. The notoriety caused by this scandal would ultimately work in the author's favor causing the initial publication to sell out, thus prompting the publication of another edition. The second edition was published in 1861, it included an additional thirty-five poems, with the exclusion of the six poems censored by the French government. Finally in 1868 a third edition was published posthumously. This collection added an additional fourteen poems selected by two of Baudelaire's friends yet again excluded the six censored poems. Literary scholars generally agree that, while well-meaning, the addition of these poems in the third edition disrupt the structure intended by Baudelaire and thus the 1861 edition should be considered as the definitive edition. In this volume we reproduce that 1861 edition along with the six censored poems in the original French and in an English translation by William Aggeler. Rich with symbolism, \"The Flowers of Evil\" is rightly considered a classic of the modernist literary movement. 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This edition adds the poems banned from the original 1857 publication to the expanded collection of 1861 and includes an introduction from the translator, acclaimed poetry scholar Nathan Brown.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378529698015,"sku":"9781804296608","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aJGYw5JNwb9781804296608.webp?v=1789257982"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/charles-baudelaire.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}