Book description
Rimbaud called him 'le premier voyant, roi des poetes, un vrai
dieu', and the history of modern poetry, which begins with him, has
borne out that opinion. This is a comprehensive new translation of all
Baudelaire's poetry, excluding only the juvenilia, occasional verse
and work of doubtful attribution. It includes all the poems published
in the first (1857) and second (1861) editions of the book, as well as
those added to the third (1868), published after the poet's death.
Baudelaire contemplated a volume of poems that would 'launch him into
the future like a cannonball', and here it is in vivid and formally
authoritative translation.
