The Flowers of Evil, which T. S. Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language, shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, its linking sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life. The volume was seized by the police, and Baudelaire and his published were .

Features musings on wine and hashish that provide psychological insight into the mind of the addict. This book asserts the ambivalence of memory, urging a union of willpower and sensual pleasure as it claims that wine and hashish bring about an escape of narrative time.

A collection of Baudelaire's critical writings, including the celebrated title-piece essay and extended studies of three of his contemporary heroes - Delacroix, Poe and Wagner. It also contains several general articles, such as those on the theory and practice of caricature.

Covering nineteenth-century drug use, this book captures the spirit of French Romanticism, in its struggle to free the mind from the shackles of the humdrum and the conventional.

The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. This title intends to show Baudelaire as one of the most influential poets of the nineteenth century.

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new - and in his own words 'dangerous' - hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen . Important and provocative, these fifty poems may be regarded as the textual equivalent of the city scenes of the Impressionists. This title translates this modernist classic.

Part of a series of small hardcover volumes with silk ribbon markers and headbands and gold stamping on the front and spine, and devoted to the world's classic poets. This book includes Baudelaire's complete Fleurs du Mal and extensive selections from Paradis Artificiel and other prose poems.

Initially composed for newspaper publication and inspired by Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, Baudelaire's musings on wine and hashish provide acute - and fascinating - psychological insight into the mind of the addict.

Contains Les Fleurs du mal (1861), the first great modern work of poetry and one of the few books of poems to become an international bestseller, with Nouvelles Fleurs du mal (1868), Les Aepaves (1866) and the author's other poetry in verse.

Provides a translation of all Baudelaire's poetry, which excludes only the juvenilia, occasional verse and work of doubtful attribution. This book includes all the poems published in the first (1857) and second (1861) editions, as well as those added to the third (1868), published after the poet's death.