The Flowers of Evil: Bicentenary dual-language edition with illustrations in monochrome

"In this, his new translation, John Tidball has produced not only a volume of technically accurate and meaningful translations, but an anthology of fine poetry, a collection in its own right". - Dr Anne Pia, poet and author.As we celebrate the bicentenary of his birth, Baudelaire's poetry continues to fascinate readers, not just in his native France but throughout the world. The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du mal) is now considered to be a major work of modern poetry, breaking with a romanticism which, for half a century, had praised nature to the point of trivializing it. Baudelaire's vision aspired to an ideal world, the path to which is paved with suffering and misfortune, a vision that exercised a considerable influence on later poets such as Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and T. S. Eliot. This new dual-language edition, with monochrome illustrations by various artists, has been specially produced to celebrate the bicentenary of the poet's birth.