Baudelaire, Charles.

Les Fleurs Du Mal. Édition Intégrale Revue Sur Les Textes Originaux. Préfacée Et Annotée Par M.Ernest Raynaud.

Paris, Librairie Garnier Freres, 1921. 12.2 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece. LVIII, 332 pages. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. With quarter leather and marbled boards. Embossed decoration and gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Page edges and margins moderately browned. Frontispiece – Portrait of Baudelaire loosely inserted. Otherwise binding strong. Clean interior.

Includes for example the following poems: L’Albatros / Don Juan Aux Enfers / La Chevelure / Le Chat / Confession / Sisina / Une Gravure Fantastique / Spleen / Paysage / Le Squelette Laboureur / Le Vin Des Amants / L’Amour Et Le Crane / La Mort Des Amants / Le Couvercle etc.

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821–1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe.

His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrializing Paris during the mid-19th century. Baudelaire’s highly original style of prose-poetry influenced a whole generation of poets including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud and Stéphane Mallarmé, among many others. He is credited with coining the term “modernity” (modernité) to designate the fleeting, ephemeral experience of life in an urban metropolis, and the responsibility of artistic expression to capture that experience. (Wikipedia)

• Keywords: Baudelaire · Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · French · French Literature – Rare · French Poet · French Poetry · Poems · Poetic works · Poetry · Poetry Collection
• Language: Français
• Inventory Number: 200462AB

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