The Flowers of Evil (Alma Classics)

Author(s): Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)

POETRY

The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decree The poet issues forth upon this sorry sphere, His mother, horrified, and full of blasphemy, Uplifts her voice to God, who takes compassion on her. "Ah, why did I not bear a serpent's nest entire, Instead of bringing forth this hideous Child of Doom Oh curs d be that transient night of vain desire When I conceived my expiation in my womb "


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  • : 9781847495747
  • : Alma Classics
  • : Alma Classics
  • : April 2016
  • : March 2016
  • : books

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  • : Charles Baudelaire; Anthony Mortimer (Translator)
  • : Paperback
  • : 1604
  • : 288