Baudelaire
October 7th 2009 10:22
Two Books About
Baudelaire
Baudelaire
Recently I've been reading Baudelaire. I happened to pick up two second hand books at all at the Bookplate. The Bookplate by the way is just the street from the station at Hornsby on the western side. If you're visitng the Odeon or Tonyon supermarket for their excellent selection of Asian greens and other items why not also visit the Book plate?
Getting back to Baudelaire ... someone must have bene culling htier library and discarding old textbooks. The two books I found dated to the 1970s and are Penguin editions.
i bought the 1975 Selected poems translated by Joanna Richardson and Selected Writings on Art and Artists trnaslated by P.E. Charvet 1972.
Did you know Baudelaire was also an art critic and tranlated Edgar Allan Poe?
Oh and most of teh "Flowers of Evil" poems are merely sensual by modern standards and could be enjoyed in frenchor English by Goths and Romantics and have a seductive smooth euphony in French.
My French despite my Family name is rather limited but enuff to enjoy access to a bilingual text such as the one in the Penguin edition.
Baudelaire is oneof those poets yo u keep readign about and mena to get aroudn to reading but dont for a while.
I'm glad I finally had time to discover him!
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