Banned Poetry FLOWERS OF EVIL Charles BAUDELAIRE First ND Edition 1955 Lesbian

Description: Currently the most revered and studied collection of French lyric poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil] by Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was the subject of one of the most famous literary trials in France.THE FLOWERS OF EVIL by Charles BAUDELAIRENew Directions, NY, 1955. First New Directions Edition. Text in both English & French. Very good hardcover, in good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge-wear and small tears to dj have been repaired with archival tape, some staining to dj. 8vo, 450 pages. DJ design is a portait of Baudelaire by Jacques Villon, courtesy of the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. In compiling this classic, bilingual edition of The Flowers of Evil, the late Marthiel and Jackson Mathews chose from the work of forty-one translators to create a collection that is "a commentary on the present state of the art of translation."Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist —including painting— and modernist movements. Though it was extremely controversial upon publication, with six of its poems censored due to their immorality, it is now considered a major work of French poetry. The poems in Les Fleurs du mal frequently break with tradition, using suggestive images and unusual forms. They deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism, particularly focusing on suffering and its relationship to original sin, disgust toward evil and oneself, obsession with death, and aspiration toward an ideal world. Les Fleurs du mal had a powerful influence on several notable French poets, including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé.BANNED: In August of 1857, less than two months after Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du Mal, a French court banned six poems from its contents: “Lesbos,” “Femmes damnés,” “Le Léthé,” “À celle qui est trop gaie,” “Les Bijoux,” and “Les Métamorphoses du Vampire.” The judges argued that these pieces would “necessarily lead to the excitement of the senses by a crude realism offensive to public decency.”About the PUBLISHER - NEW DIRECTIONS The first American publisher of such notables as Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry Miller, New Directions was founded in 1936 when twenty-two-year-old James Laughlin issued the first of the New Directions anthologies in response to Ezra Pound’s advice to “do something useful.” Laughlin created an independent press committed to publishing experimental writing.New Directions introduced readers to the early work of such writers as Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.New Directions has published quality contemporary writing of all genres including novels, plays, and collections of poems. Writers such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, who once had difficulty finding publishers, were early New Directions authors and the company published many modernist & avant garde writers throughout their history. Collecting NEW DIRECTIONS books will almost certainly lead to one building an eclectic and impressive library of modern, intellectually stimulating, and diverse books - plus, they are almost always among the most aesthetically pleasing designed editions of any work. This began just after World War II, when New Directions developed a close relationship with the artist Alvin Lustig, who designed modernist abstract book jackets. Lustig was ultimately responsible for developing a distinctive style of dust jacket that served as a New Directions hallmark for many years.First editions of early titles from New Directions may require specific author bibliographies, but First editions published from the late 1940s to 1969 have no additional printings listed on the copyright page.The company's colophon is a figure of a centaur based upon a sculpture by Heinz Henghes, and usually appears on the spine of New Directions books.Loc: E2StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackBanned Poetry FLOWERS OF EVIL Charles BAUDELAIRE First ND Edition 1955 Lesbian Currently the most revered and studied collection of French lyric poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal [The Flowers of Evil] by Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) was the subject of one of the most famous literary trials in France.THE FLOWERS OF EVIL by Charles BAUDELAIRENew Directions, NY, 1955. First New Directions Edition. Text in both English & French. Very good hardcover, in good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge-wear and small tears to dj have been repaired with archival tape, some staining to dj. 8vo, 450 pages. DJ design is a portait of Baudelaire by Jacques Villon, courtesy of the MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. In compiling this classic, bilingual edition of The Flowers of Evil, the late Marthiel and Jackson Mathews chose from the work of forty-one translators to create a collection that is "a commentary on the present state of the art of translation."Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist —including painting— and modernist movements. Though it was extremely controversial upon publication, with six of its poems censored due to their immorality, it is now considered a major work of French poetry. The poems in Les Fleurs du mal frequently break with tradition, using suggestive images and unusual forms. They deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism, particularly focusing on suffering and its relationship to original sin, disgust toward evil and oneself, obsession with death, and aspiration toward an ideal world. Les Fleurs du mal had a powerful influence on several notable French poets, including Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, and Stéphane Mallarmé.BANNED: In August of 1857, less than two months after Charles Baudelaire published Les Fleurs du Mal, a French court banned six poems from its contents: “Lesbos,” “Femmes damnés,” “Le Léthé,” “À celle qui est trop gaie,” “Les Bijoux,” and “Les Métamorphoses du Vampire.” The judges argued that these pieces would “necessarily lead to the excitement of the senses by a crude realism offensive to public decency.”About the PUBLISHER - NEW DIRECTIONS The first American publisher of such notables as Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges, and Henry Miller, New Directions was founded in 1936 when twenty-two-year-old James Laughlin issued the first of the New Directions anthologies in response to Ezra Pound’s advice to “do something useful.” Laughlin created an independent press committed to publishing experimental writing.New Directions introduced readers to the early work of such writers as Dylan Thomas, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.New Directions has published quality contemporary writing of all genres including novels, plays, and collections of poems. Writers such as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, who once had difficulty finding publishers, were early New Directions authors and the company published many modernist & avant garde writers throughout their history. Collecting NEW DIRECTIONS books will almost certainly lead to one building an eclectic and impressive library of modern, intellectually stimulating, and diverse books - plus, they are almost always among the most aesthetically pleasing designed editions of any work. This began just after World War II, when New Directions developed a close relationship with the artist Alvin Lustig, who designed modernist abstract book jackets. Lustig was ultimately responsible for developing a distinctive style of dust jacket that served as a New Directions hallmark for many years.First editions of early titles from New Directions may require specific author bibliographies, but First editions published from the late 1940s to 1969 have no additional printings listed on the copyright page.The company's colophon is a figure of a centaur based upon a sculpture by Heinz Henghes, and usually appears on the spine of New Directions books.Loc: E2

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