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BAUDELAIRE CHARLES THE FLOWERS OF EVIL

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
poems were 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 the question 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.  ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
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