The Flowers of Evil by Baudelaire, Charles -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Copyright Page Title Page Contents Introduction Note on the Text Select Bibliography A Chronology of Charles Baudelaire Translator’s Preface To the Reader SPLEEN AND THE IDEAL

1. Benediction 2. The Albatross 3. Elevation 4. Correspondences 5. ‘I love the thought. . .’ 6. The Beacons 7. The Sick Muse 8. The Venal Muse 9. The Wretched Monk 10. The Enemy 11. Ill Fortune 12. A Former Life 13. Gypsies Travelling 14. Man and the Sea 15. Don Juan in Hell 16. Punishment for Pride 17. Beauty 18. The Ideal 19. The Giantess 20. The Mask 21. Hymn to Beauty 21a. The Jewels 22. Exotic Perfume 23. Head of Hair 24. ‘I love you as I love ...’ 25. ‘You’d entertain the universe ...’ 26. Sed non satiata 27. ‘The way her silky garments ...’ 28. The Dancing Serpent 29. A Carcass 30. De profundis clamavi 31. The Vampire 31a. Lethe 32. ‘Beside a monstrous Jewish whore ...’ 33. Remorse after Death 34. The Cat 35. Duellum 36. The Balcony 37. The Possessed 38. A Phantom 39. ‘I give to you these verses ...’ 40. Semper eadem 41. Completely One 42. ‘What will you say tonight...’ 43. The Living Torch 43a. To One Who Is Too Cheerful 44. Reversibility 45. Confession 46. The Spiritual Dawn 47. The Harmony of Evening 48. The Flask 49. Poison 50. Misty Sky 51. The Cat 52. The Splendid Ship 53. Invitation to the Voyage 54. The Irreparable 55. Conversation 56. Autumn Song 57. To a Madonna 58. Song of the Afternoon 59. Sisina 60. Praises for My Francisca 61. For a Creole Lady 62. Mœsta et errabunda 63. The Ghost 64. Autumn Sonnet 65. Sorrows of the Moon 66. Cats 67. Owls 68. The Pipe 69. Music 70. Burial 71. A Fantastical Engraving 72. The Happy Corpse 73. The Cask of Hate 74. The Cracked Bell 75. Spleen (I) 76. Spleen (II) 77. Spleen (III) 78. Spleen (IV) 79. Obsession 80. The Taste for Nothingness 81. Alchemy of Suffering 82. Congenial Horror 83. Heautontimnmumenos 84. The Irremediable 85. The Clock

PARISIAN SCENES

86. Landscape 87. The Sun 88. To a Red-Haired Beggar Girl 89. The Swan 90. The Seven Old Men 91. The Little Old Women 92. The Blind 93. To a Woman Passing By 94. Skeletons Digging 95. Dusk 96. Gaming 97. Danse macabre 98. The Love of Illusion 99. ‘I have not forgotten ...’ 100. ‘That kind heart you were jealous of.. .’ 101. Mists and Rains 102. Parisian Dream 103. Dawn

WINE

104. The Soul of Wine 105. The Ragman’s Wine 106. The Murderer’s Wine 107. The Solitary’s Wine 108. The Lovers’ Wine

FLOWERS OF EVIL

109. Destruction 110. A Martyr 110a. Lesbos 110b. Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta 111. Condemned Women 112. The Two Good Sisters 113. The Fountain of Blood 114. Allegory 115. A Beatrice 115a. The Metamorphoses of the Vampire 116. A Voyage to Cythera 117. Passion and the Skull

REVOLT

118. St Peter’s Denial 119. Abel and Cain 120. Litanies of Satan

DEATH

121. The Death of Lovers 122. The Death of the Poor 123. The Death of Artists 124. Day’s End 125. Dream of a Curious Man 126. Voyaging

THE WAIFS

I. The Setting of the Romantic Sun Gallantries VIII. The Fountain IX. Bertha’s Eyes X. Hymn XI. A Face Makes Promises XII. The Monster Epigraphs XIV. Poem on the Portrait of Honoré Daumier XV. Lola de Valence XVI. On Tasso in Prison,by Eugène Delacroix Diverse Pieces XVII. The Voice XVIII. The Unforeseen XIX. The Ransom XX. To a Girl of Malabar Buffooneries XXI. On the Début of Amina Boschetti XXII. To M. Eugène Fromentin XXIII. A Jolly Tavern

ADDITIONAL POEMS FROM THE THIRD EDITION OF THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (l868)

1. Epigraph for a Condemned Book 2. To Théodore de Banville 4. Prayer of a Pagan 5. The Pot Lid 6. Midnight Examination 7. Sad Madrigal 8. The Cautioner 9. The Rebel 10. Very Far From France 11. The Gulf 12. Lament of an Icarus 13. Meditation 14. The Insulted Moon

Explanatory Notes Index of Titles Index of First Lines Footnotes

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