Les fleurs du mal

by Charles Baudelaire

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1857

1936 (Dillon-Millay translation)

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National Book Award (Translation, 1983) Richard Howard

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La sottise, l’erreur, le péché, la lésine,/
Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps,/
Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords,/
Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.

Quotations

Verse-nous ton poison pour qu’il nous réconforte !/
Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau,/
Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu’importe ?/
Au fond de l’Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau !

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there are quite a few different versions of this book containing more or less poems (most notable the 6 condemned verses miss often and the "Tableaux parisiens" have been added in newer editions. (see http://fleursdumal.org/ for details)

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0879234628, Paperback)

WINNER OF THE American Book Award in Translation for 1983, Richard Howard’s version of this landmark work of modernist verse, published here in tandem with the French original. Embellished by a frontispiece portrait and nine floral monotypes by Michael Mazur.

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