Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire; Marthiel Mathews; Jackson Mathews (Selected by, Editor)

The poems deal with themes relating to decadence and eroticism. Charles Baudelaire opens The Flowers of Evil with a poem entitled "Benediction," and it's special stuff -- but of course it is, we're talking about a poem by Charles Baudelaire, for god's sake. When by the changeless Power of a Supreme Decr...