The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal Paperback – June 1, 2015

Genius and bold poet, who should be read by everyone

I really love this book! I recommend for anybody wishing to read Charles Baudelaire to look up the history of him first. It's just so amazing besides the fact that he only had modest sales in his lifetime. I wish the industry would stop dooming authors this way. I first found Charles Baudelaire on an article poets who were mad, bad, and dangerous to know lol. I fell in love with his work before I ever read it. A few other honorable mentions were François Villon, Percy Shelley, and Lord Byron.

Death, excess and debauchery; what else is there to say 🥳

...it is a great pleasure to reread these poems.

Always love the books I purchase at Amazon. Love to give a new life to a previously owned book.

Love Charles Baudelaire! Just needed this for my collection. Love love love the cover art!

Complete edition of Baudelaire's classic poetry.

This poet and this work hardly need any introduction by me, so I will just give my impression in a series of six statements.1. I survived his adolescent period but was relieved when he began to tackle more varied subject matter than women's bodies.2. I hadn't realized he was such a sonneteer!3. While the title of this volume put me off, I enjoyed the different ways it could be taken while reading through the poems.4. I was expecting something darker and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of mood and tone, though as the title suggests, it does not shy away from darker subject matter and moods.5. I'm on board with him as one of the greats just from this volume but I expect to enjoy the prose poems of Paris Spleen much more than the formal poetry of Flowers of Evil.6. I can see how these poems as a group would resonate more and more with repeated readings; however, I can't say that I, personally, enjoyed them enough the first time around to delve into them that deeply.