The Flowers of Evil [Paperback]

Banned and slighted in his lifetime, the book that contains all of Baudelaire's verses has opened up vistas to the imagination and quickened sensibilities of poets everywhere. Yet it is questionable whether a single translator can give adequate voice to Baudelaire's full poetic range. In compiling their classic, bilingual edition ofIn the annals of literature, few single volumes of poetry have achieved the influence and notoriety of The Flowers of Evil (