Author: Baudelaire, Charles P.; Editor: Sykes, Robert
Penguin Poets in Translation; Paperback; Standard Hardcover size
336 pages
Published: October 1997
Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 0140446443

Perhaps the most explosively original mind of his century, Charles Baudelaire has proved profoundly influential well beyond the borders of nineteenth-century France. Writers from Lord Alfred Douglas to Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Aldous Huxley to Seamus Heaney, from Arthur Symons to John Ashbery, from Basil Bunting to Robert Lowell, have all attempted to transmit in English his psychological and sexual complexity, his images of urban alienation. This superb addition to the Poets in Translation series brings together the translations of his poetry and prose poems that best reveal the different facets of Baudelaire's personality: the haughtily defiant artist, the tormented bohemian, the savage yet tender lover, and the celebrant of strange and haunted cityscapes.A collection of the most significant translations of the work of Charles Baudelaire. This anthology of translations of Charles Baudelaire's poems, brings together work which reveals the different facets of Baudelaire's personality.