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The Flowers of Evil

by Charles Baudelaire

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1857
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Read by Shakira Searle, KHand, James Koss and others · 1 h 28 min · 54 parts

  1. Benediction

    5:19

  2. Echoes

    1:09

  3. The Sick Muse

    1:25

  4. The Venal Muse

    1:20

  5. The Evil Monk

    1:20

  6. The Enemy

    1:19

  7. Ill Luck

    1:05

  8. Interior Life

    1:10

  9. Man and the Sea

    1:46

  10. Beauty

    1:33

  11. The Ideal

    1:12

  12. The Giantess

    1:13

  13. Hymn to Beauty

    2:44

  14. Exotic Perfume

    1:32

  15. La Chevelure

    2:44

  16. Sonnet XXVIII

    1:27

  17. Posthumous Remorse

    1:20

  18. The Balcony

    2:31

  19. The Possessed One

    1:10

  20. Semper Eadem

    1:21

  21. All Entire

    1:41

  22. Sonnet XLIII

    1:32

  23. The Living Torch

    1:31

  24. The Spiritual Dawn

    1:15

  25. Evening Harmony

    2:01

  26. Overcast Sky

    1:46

  27. Invitation to a Journey

    2:42

  28. "Causerie"

    1:02

  29. Autumn Song

    2:46

  30. Sisina

    1:06

  31. To a Creolean Lady

    1:03

  32. Moesta et Errabunda

    2:30

  33. The Ghost

    1:14

  34. Autumn Song

    1:58

  35. Sadness of the Moon-Goddess

    1:08

  36. Cats

    1:25

  37. Owls

    1:08

  38. Music

    1:12

  39. The Joyous Defunct

    1:32

  40. The Broken Bell

    1:08

  41. Spleen

    1:06

  42. Obsession

    1:28

  43. Magnetic Horror

    0:56

  44. The Lid

    1:31

  45. Bertha's Eyes

    1:06

  46. The Set of the Romantic Sun

    1:06

  47. Meditation

    1:54

  48. To a Passer-by

    1:26

  49. Illusionary Love

    2:01

  50. Mists and Rains

    1:53

  51. The Wine of Lovers

    1:16

  52. Condemned Women

    3:00

  53. The Death of the Lovers

    1:35

  54. The Death of the Poor

    1:47

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A poet faces his mother's anger and the hostility of those around him in the opening verses of Charles Baudelaire's collection. His answer turns suffering into a claim for spiritual dignity. The English verse translation by Cyril Scott carries that struggle into poems about artistic work, beauty, solitude and the passing of time. Classical figures and Christian imagery appear beside troubled voices whose surroundings seem to reflect their inward lives.

Scent, colour and sound answer one another in the poem titled Echoes, while Man and the Sea makes the ocean a mirror of the human spirit. Elsewhere, richly furnished rooms and quiet harbours offer imagined peace, but approaching winter brings anxiety and memories of lost warmth.

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire expanded the possibilities of French lyric and prose poetry through sharply observed writing on modern Paris, beauty and alienation. His prose poems, published posthumously as Le Spleen de Paris, appear in Poems in Prose through Arthur Symons’s English translation. J. C.

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Book facts

First published
1857
Reading time
About 35 minutes
Pages
38
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Shakira Searle, KHand, James Koss and others