Read the entirely new and original English translation of Charles Baudelaire's most famous work, completed for the bicentennial of the poet's birth.
Baudelaire himself labored tirelessly to perfect his own translations of Edgar Allan Poe into French; here, Poe's compatriot makes a gesture toward repayment of the literary debt.
The poems here are those of the third, posthumous (the 1868) edition of
Les Fleurs du mal
, translated into English respecting the form, and possessed by the spirit, of the original masterpieces.