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⊙ 惡魔詩人夏爾．波特萊爾（Charles Baudelaire），世界文壇上被譽為莎士比亞以後最偉大的歐洲詩人。
⊙ 深受維克多．雨果（Victor Marie Hugo）喜愛，不可抹滅的永恆經典，十九世紀出版至今最有影響力的詩集之一
⊙ 由國際讚譽的譯者Anthony Mortimer著手翻譯，並附上法語原文對照，忠實還原《惡之華》中的惡與美
1857年6月25日，Charles Baudelaire所著《惡之華》一書，便如「一道新的顫慄」，於巴黎書店橫空出世。其犀利，甚至可謂離經叛道的美學，即使在近200年後的現代，仍舊是現代詩歌不可逾越的地平線，並深深影響後世的象徵主義與現代主義詩人們。
著名評論家亞那托爾．法蘭斯曾給予他極高的美譽：「波特萊爾不是敗德的詩人，而是與此全然不同的罪惡詩人。他的道德觀與神學家們的主張相差無幾，原罪的教義，在『惡之華』中，達到最高的詩性表現。」
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Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense sensuality and profound spiritual yearning, racked by debt and disease, Baudelaire transformed his own experience of Parisian life into a work of universal significance. With his unflinching examination of the dark aspects and unconventional manifestations of sexuality, his pioneering portrayal of life in a great metropolis and his daring combination of the lyrical and the prosaic, Baudelaire inaugurated a new epoch in poetry and created a founding text of modernism.
Anthony Mortimer, already praised for his virtuoso translations of Petrarch, Dante and Villon, has produced a new version that not only respects the sense and the form of the original French, but also makes powerful English poetry in its own right.
ISBN 9781847495747
書號 20256234
尺寸 13*20 cm
