John E Tidball

The nineteenth century French poet Charles Baudelaire is revered not only in his native France, but by poetry-lovers throughout the world. His collection of poems Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) continues to fascinate readers to this day.In this remarkable new translation, which contains all the poems from all three editions of Baudelaire's chef d'oeuvre, John E. Tidball captures in rhyming and metered verse the essence of his undisputed poetic genius.

The original poems in this book were published by Charles Baudelaire in 1861 under the title Les Fleurs du Mal. This was the second edition of the same name, but it differs from the first edition both in the increased number and in the order of poems. The first edition, consisting of one hundred poems appeared in 1857, but almost immediately after publication Baudelaire and his editor were prosecuted and condemned for

This book contains the one hundred poems that were published by the French poet Charles Baudelaire in 1857 under the title 'Les Fleurs du Mal'. Each original French poem is followed by a facing-page translation in rhyming and metered English verse.