The Flowers of Evil

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The Flowers of Evil Charles Baudelaire Translated into English Verse by Cyril ScottLes Fleurs du mal; English: The Flowers of Evil, is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism.The author and the publisher were prosecuted under the regime of the Second Empire as an outrage aux bonnes moeurs ("an insult to public decency"). As a consequence of this prosecution, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs. Six poems from the work were suppressed and the ban on their publication was not lifted in France until 1949. These poems were "Lesbos"; "Femmes damnées (À la pâle clarté)" (or "Women Doomed (In the pale glimmer...)"); "Le Léthé" (or "Lethe"); "À celle qui est trop gaie" (or "To Her Who Is Too Gay"); "Les Bijoux" (or "The Jewels"); and " Les "Métamorphoses du Vampire" (or "The Vampire's Metamorphoses"). These were later published in Brussels in a small volume entitled Les Épaves (Scraps or Jetsam).Table of ContentsBenediction Echoes The Sick Muse The Venal Muse The Evil Monk The Enemy Ill Luck Interior Life Man and the Sea Beauty The Ideal The Giantess Hymn to Beauty Exotic Perfume La Chevelure Sonnet xxviii Posthumous Remorse The Balcony The Possessed One Semper Eadem All Entire Sonnet xliii The Living Torch The Spiritual Dawn Evening Harmony Overcast Sky Invitation to a Journey "Causerie" Autumn Song Sisina To a Creolean Lady Moesta et Errabunda The Ghost Autumn Song Sadness of the Moon-Goddess Cats Owls Music The Joyous Defunct The Broken Bell Spleen Obsession Magnetic Horror The Lid Bertha's Eyes The Set of the Romantic Sun Meditation To a Passer-by Illusionary Love Mists and Rains The Wine of Lovers Condemned Women The Death of the Lovers The Death of the Poor

Genre: Poetry / European / French (fancy, right?)