Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire, Saleem Rustom

• Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781071596883
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Les Fleurs du mal is a collection of poems by Charles Baudelaire, encompassing almost all of his production in verse, from 1840 until his death at the end of August 1867. Flowers of Evil It is a major work of modern poetry. His pieces break with agreed style, in use until then and rejuvenate the structure of the verse by regular use of crossings, rejects and counter-rejects. This renovates the rigid form of the sonnet. He uses suggestive images by often making unprecedented associations, such as the "cruel angel who lashes the suns" (Le Voyage). He mixes scholarly language and everyday talk. Breaking with a romanticism which, for half a century, praised Nature to the point of trivializing it, it celebrates the city and more particularly Paris. This work differs from a classic collection, where often only chance brings together poems that are generally disparate. These are articulated with method and according to a precise plan, to sing with absolute sincerity: the suffering here below considered according to the Christian dogma of original sin, which implies atonement; disgust with evil - and often with oneself; obsession with death; the aspiration to an ideal world, accessible by mysterious correspondences. Nourished by physical sensations which memory acutely restores, the work expresses a new aesthetic where poetic art juxtaposes the moving palette of human feelings and lucid vision of a sometimes trivial reality of the most ineffable beauty. He will exert a considerable influence on later poets as eminent as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine as well as Stéphane Mallarmé.

“Flowers of Evil”

Written By Charles Beaudelaire

Copyright © 2021 Charles Beaudelaire

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Translated by Saleem Rustom

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Charles Baudelaire | Flowers of Evil | To the reader

Melancholy and Ideal | I | Blessing

II | The Albatross

III | Elevation

IV | Correspondences

V | I love the souvenirs of those bare eras

VI | The Beacons

VII | The ailing muse

VIII | The corrupt muse

IX | The bad monk

X | The enemy

XI | The guignon

XII | The previous life

XIII | Bohemians traveling

XIV | The man and the sea

XV | Don Juan in Hell

XVI | Chastisement of pride

XVII | The beauty

XVIII | The ideal

XIX | The giantess

XX | The mask

XXI | Hymn to beauty

XXII | Exotic scent

XXIII | The hair

XXIV | I adore you like the night vault

XXV | You would put the whole universe in your alley

XXVI | Sed non satiata

XXVII | With her wavy and pearly clothes

XXVIII | The dancing serpent

XXIX | A carrion

XXX | From profundis clamavi

XXXI | The vampire

XXXII | One night that I was near a horrible Jewess

XXXIII | Posthumous remorse

XXXIV | The cat

XXXV | Duellum

XXXVI | The balcony

XXXVII | The possessed

XXXVIII | A ghost | I | Darkness

II | The perfume

III | The framework

IV | The portrait

XXXIX | I give you these verses so that if my name

XL | Semper eadem

XLI | Wholesome

XLII | What will you say tonight, poor lonely soul

XLIII | The living torch

XLIV | Reversibility

XLV | Confession

XLVI | The spiritual dawn

XLVII | Evening harmony

XLVIII | The flask

XLIX | The poison

L | Cloudy sky

LI | The cat | I

II

LII | The beautiful ship

LIII | An invitation to travel

LIV | The irreparable

LV | Chat

LVI | Autumn song | I

II

LVII | To a Madonna

LVIII | Afternoon song

LIX | Sisina

LX | Frances praises

LXI | To a Creole lady

LXII | Moesta and errabunda

LXIII | The spook

LXIV | Autumn sonnets

LXV | The moon's sadnesses

LXVI | The cats

LXVII | The owls

LXVIII | The Pipe

LXIX | The music

LXX | Burial

LXXI | A fantastic painting

LXXII | A joyous dead

LXXIII | The barrel of hate

LXXIV | The cracked bell

LXXV | Melancholy

LXXVI | Mélancholie

LXXVII | Melancholy

LXXVIII | Melancholy

LXXIX | Obsession

LXXX | Taste of the void

LXXXI | Alchemy of pain

LXXXII | Sympathetic horror

LXXXIII | The héautontimorouménos

LXXXIV | The irremediable | I

II

LXXXV | The pendulum

Parisian Paintings | LXXXVI | Scenery

LXXXVII | The sun

LXXXVIII | To a redhead beggar

LXXXIX | The swan

I

II

XC | The seven old men

XCI | The little old ladies

I

II

III

IV

XCII | The blinds

XCIII | To a passer-by

XCIV | The skeletal plowman | I

II

XCV | The twilight of night

XCVI | The game

XCVII | Macabre dance

XCVIII | Love for lies

XCIX | I have not forgotten, neighbor of the city

C | The maid with a big heart you were jealous of

CI | Mists and rains

CII | Parisian dream | To Cons...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Charles Baudelaire | Flowers of Evil | To the reader
• Melancholy and Ideal | I | Blessing
• II | The Albatross
• III | Elevation
• IV | Correspondences
• V | I love the souvenirs of those bare eras
• VI | The Beacons
• VII | The ailing muse
• VIII | The corrupt muse
• IX | The bad monk
• X | The enemy
• XI | The guignon
• XII | The previous life
• XIII | Bohemians traveling
• XIV | The man and the sea
• XV | Don Juan in Hell
• XVI | Chastisement of pride
• XVII | The beauty
• XVIII | The ideal
• XIX | The giantess
• XX | The mask
• XXI | Hymn to beauty
• XXII | Exotic scent
• XXIII | The hair
• XXIV | I adore you like the night vault
• XXV | You would put the whole universe in your alley
• XXVI | Sed non satiata
• XXVII | With her wavy and pearly clothes
• XXVIII | The dancing serpent
• XXIX | A carrion
• XXX | From profundis clamavi
• XXXI | The vampire
• XXXII | One night that I was near a horrible Jewess
• XXXIII | Posthumous remorse
• XXXIV | The cat
• XXXV | Duellum
• XXXVI | The balcony
• XXXVII | The possessed
• XXXVIII | A ghost | I | Darkness
• II | The perfume
• III | The framework
• IV | The portrait
• XXXIX | I give you these verses so that if my name
• XL | Semper eadem
• XLI | Wholesome
• XLII | What will you say tonight, poor lonely soul
• XLIII | The living torch
• XLIV | Reversibility
• XLV | Confession
• XLVI | The spiritual dawn
• XLVII | Evening harmony
• XLVIII | The flask
• XLIX | The poison
• L | Cloudy sky
• LI | The cat | I
• II
• LII | The beautiful ship
• LIII | An invitation to travel
• LIV | The irreparable
• LV | Chat
• LVI | Autumn song | I
• II
• LVII | To a Madonna
• LVIII | Afternoon song
• LIX | Sisina
• LX | Frances praises
• LXI | To a Creole lady
• LXII | Moesta and errabunda
• LXIII | The spook
• LXIV | Autumn sonnets
• LXV | The moon's sadnesses
• LXVI | The cats
• LXVII | The owls
• LXVIII | The Pipe
• LXIX | The music
• LXX | Burial
• LXXI | A fantastic painting
• LXXII | A joyous dead
• LXXIII | The barrel of hate
• LXXIV | The cracked bell
• LXXV | Melancholy
• LXXVI | Mélancholie
• LXXVII | Melancholy
• LXXVIII | Melancholy
• LXXIX | Obsession
• LXXX | Taste of the void
• LXXXI | Alchemy of pain
• LXXXII | Sympathetic horror
• LXXXIII | The héautontimorouménos
• LXXXIV | The irremediable | I
• II
• LXXXV | The pendulum
• Parisian Paintings | LXXXVI | Scenery
• LXXXVII | The sun
• LXXXVIII | To a redhead beggar
• LXXXIX | The swan
• I
• II
• XC | The seven old men
• XCI | The little old ladies
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• XCII | The blinds
• XCIII | To a passer-by
• XCIV | The skeletal plowman | I
• II
• XCV | The twilight of night
• XCVI | The game
• XCVII | Macabre dance
• XCVIII | Love for lies
• XCIX | I have not forgotten, neighbor of the city
• C | The maid with a big heart you were jealous of
• CI | Mists and rains
• CII | Parisian dream | To Constantin Guys | I
• II
• CIII | The morning's twilight
• The wine | CIV | Spirit of the wine
• CV | Ragpickers' wine
• CVI | The assassin's wine
• CVII | The loner's wine
• CVIII | Lovers' wine
• Flowers of evil | CIX | The destruction
• CX | A martyr
• CXI | Damned women
• CXII | The two good sisters
• CXIII | Blood fountain
• CXIV | Allegory
• CXV | The Beatrice
• CXVI | A trip to Kythera
• CXVII | Love and the cranium
• Revolt | CXVIII | Saint Peter's disavowal
• CXIX | Abel and Cain | I
• II
• CXX | Satan's litanies
• Death | CXXI | Lovers' death
• CXXII | Death of the poor
• CXXII | Artists' death
• CXXIV | End of the Day
• CXXV | The dream of a curious one
• CXXVI | The journey
• I
• II
• III
• IV
• V
• VI
• VII
• VIII