Complete Poems
Including all poems published in the previous three editions, this comprehensive new translation of Baudelaire's poetry is both vivid and authoritative. This dual-language volume presents both the original French poems as well as their translations.
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Rimbaud called Charles Baudelaire 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai dieu'. The history of modern poetry begins with him. This is a comprehensive translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. Baudelaire contemplated a volume of poems that would 'launch him into the future like a cannon-ball'. Here it is in vivid and formally authoritative translation.
AcknowledgementsChronologyTo the Reader3Benediction9The Albatros15Transcendence17Universal Analogies19'I love the thought...'21The Guiding Lights25The Sick Muse29The Mercenary Muse31The Bad Monk33The Enemy35Bad Luck37Previous Existence39Roving Gypsies41Man and Sea43Don Juan in the Underworld45Punishment of Pride47Beauty49The Ideal51The Giantess53Jewels55The Mask57Hymn to Beauty59Exotic Scent61Her Hair63'I love you as I love...'65'When boredom gnaws...'67Still Unsatisfied69'In glistening shot-silk...'71The Dancing Serpent73Carrion75Out of the Depths79The Vampire81Lethe83'One night I had...'85Posthumous Remorse87Cat89Mortal Combat91The Balcony93Possessed95Black Brightness97The Scent99The Frame101The Portrait103'These lines I give to you...'105Ever the Same107Total Harmony109'What will you say...'111The Living Torch113Too Full of Life115Reversibility117Confession119Spiritual Dawn123Evening Harmony125The Perfume-flask127Poison129Uncertain Skies131Cat133The Proud Ship137Invitation to a Voyage141The Irreparable145Conversation149Song of Autumn151To a Madonna153Song for an Afternoon157Sisina161In Praise of My Francoise163To a Creole Lady165Restless and Sad167The Living Dead169Autumn Sonnet171The Melancholy Moon173Cats175Owls177Pipe179Music181A Burial183A Fantastic Engraving185The Carefree Corpse187The Cask of Hate189The Cracked Bell191Black Bile (Pluvius...)193Black Bile (Millenium...)195Black Bile (Worthless...)197Black Bile (When heavy...)199Obsession201Desire for Oblivion203The Alchemist of Sorrows205Sympathetic Horror207The Self-Tormentor209The Point of No Return211The Clock215Landscape219The Sun221To a Red-headed Beggar223The Swan227The Seven Old Men231The Little Old Women235The Blind241A Passing Glance243Posthumous Work245Last Light247Games of Chance249Dancing Death251The Love of Artifice255'I haven't forgotten...'257'You were so jealous...'259Mist and Rain261Parisian Dream263First Light267The Spirit of the Wine271Ragpickers' Wine273Murderer's Wine275The Wine of the Solitary Man279Lovers' Wine281Ruin285A Martyr287Lesbos291Damned Women (D & H)295Damned Women301Sisters of Mercy303Fountain of Blood305Allegory307My Beatrice309Metamorphoses of the Vampire311A Voyage to Cythera313Cupid and Skull317Saint Peter's Denial321Abel and Cain323Litanies to Satan327The Death of Lovers335The Death of the Poor337The Death of Artists339The End of the Day341A Curious Man's Dream343TravellersEpigraph...355Merciless Madrigal357The Pagan's Prayer361The Rebel363The Serpent's Tooth365Meditation367The Lid369The Affronted Moon371The Abyss373The Laments of an Icarus375The Examination of Conscience377A World Away379Last Rays...381The Girandole385Berthe's Eyes389Hymn391The Promise in a Pair of Eyes393Rara avis395On a Portrait of Daumier403'Lola de Valence'405'Tasso in Prison'407To Theodore de Banville411The Voice413Out of the Blue415The Ransom419To a Girl in Malabar421The Debut...425Concerning a Jackass427A Lively Watering Hole431Sources432Afterthoughts433Index of Titles443
