The Flowers of Evil

By Charles Baudelaire

"The Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire (translated by Cyril Scott). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 20, 2019
• ISBN: 4057664176110

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was a French poet. Born in Paris, Baudelaire lost his father at a young age. Raised by his mother, he was sent to boarding school in Lyon and completed his education at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, where he gained a reputation for frivolous spending and likely contracted several sexually transmitted diseases through his frequent contact with prostitutes. After journeying by sea to Calcutta, India at the behest of his stepfather, Baudelaire returned to Paris and began working on the lyric poems that would eventually become The Flowers of Evil (1857), his most famous work. Around this time, his family placed a hold on his inheritance, hoping to protect Baudelaire from his worst impulses. His mistress Jeanne Duval, a woman of mixed French and African ancestry, was rejected by the poet’s mother, likely leading to Baudelaire’s first known suicide attempt. During the Revolutions of 1848, Baudelaire worked as a journalist for a revolutionary newspaper, but soon abandoned his political interests to focus on his poetry and translations of the works of Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe. As an arts critic, he promoted the works of Romantic painter Eugène Delacroix, composer Richard Wagner, poet Théophile Gautier, and painter Édouard Manet. Recognized for his pioneering philosophical and aesthetic views, Baudelaire has earned praise from such artists as Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé, Marcel Proust, and T. S. Eliot. An embittered recorder of modern decay, Baudelaire was an essential force in revolutionizing poetry, shaping the outlook that would drive the next generation of artists away from Romanticism towards Symbolism, and beyond. Paris Spleen (1869), a posthumous collection of prose poems, is considered one of the nineteenth century’s greatest works of literature.

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Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil

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Table of Contents

CYRIL SCOTT

Benediction

Echoes

The Sick Muse

The Venal Muse

The Evil Monk

The Enemy

Ill Luck

Interior Life

Man and the Sea

Beauty

The Ideal

The Giantess

Hymn to Beauty

Exotic Perfume

La Chevelure

Sonnet XXVIII

Posthumous Remorse

The Balcony

The Possessed One

Semper Eadem

All Entire

Sonnet XLIII

The Living Torch

The Spiritual Dawn

Evening Harmony

Overcast Sky

Invitation to a Journey

Causerie

Autumn Song

Sisina

To a Creolean Lady

Moesta et Errabunda

The Ghost

Autumn Song

Sadness of the Moon-Goddess

Cats

Owls

Music

The Joyous Defunct

The Broken Bell

Spleen

Obsession

Magnetic Horror

The Lid

Bertha's Eyes

The Set of the Romantic Sun

Meditation

To a Passer-by

Illusionary Love

Mists and Rains

The Wine of Lovers

Condemned Women

The Death of the Lovers

The Death of the Poor

TRANSLATED INTO

ENGLISH VERSE

BY

CYRIL SCOTT

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LONDON

ELKIN MATHEWS, VIGO STREET

M CM IX

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DEDICATED TO ARTHUR SYMONS

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CONTENTS

Benediction

Echoes

The Sick Muse

The Venal Muse

The Evil Monk

The Enemy

Ill Luck

Interior Life

Man and the Sea

Beauty

The Ideal

The Giantess

Hymn to Beauty

Exotic Perfume

La Chevelure

Sonnet XXVIII

Posthumous Remorse

The Balcony

The Possessed One

Semper Eadem

All Entire

Sonnet XLIII

The Living Torch

The Spiritual Dawn

Evening Harmony

Overcast Sky

Invitation to a Journey

Causerie

Autumn Song

Sisina

To a Creolean Lady

Moesta et Errabunda

The Ghost

Autumn Song

Sadness of the Moon-Goddess

Cats

Owls

Music

The Joyous Defunct

The Broken Bell

Spleen

Obsession

Magnetic Horror

The Lid

Bertha's Eyes

The Set of the Romantic Sun

Meditation

To a Passer-by

Illusionary Love

Mists and Rains

The Wine of Lovers

Condemned Women

The Death of the Lovers

The Death of the Poor

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Benediction

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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 cursèd be that transient night of vain desire

When I conceived my expiation in my womb!"

"Yet since among all women