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Title: Complete Poems by Charles Baudelaire, Walter Martin ISBN: 0-415-94092-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Evil Rhymes
Comment: What I like best about this translation is the way Walter Martin renders the poems in rhyme. Baudelaire's extreme content--his embrace of putrefaction, filth, sadism and ennui as fit stuff for poetry--owes much of its impact to the tight, disciplined verses he chose for his medium. Most Baudelaire translations don't capture this classical edge in English, turning the poems into free verse or prose. While Martin has to bend the exact meaning a little (sometimes a lot) to get the English to rhyme, on the whole he does a truly incredible job of making the verse sound exact and controlled but not sing-songy. There's no ponderous introduction to bug you either, just a short & highly personal 'Afterthoughts' section with many intriguing insights. This might not be the only translation you'll want to read, but it recovers a side of modernity's bad boy that's hard to find anywhere else.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good effort at translation
Comment: This is the first complete translation of Les Fleurs du Mal that I've seen which captures both Baudelaire's symbolic rhyming and his strict syllable count (10 per line in this edition vs. Baudelaire's usual 12).
Martin's translation could be improved by following Baudelaire's order of ideas and literal diction more closely, but he captures the spirit of each poem in a way that makes this volume stand out from most of the previous efforts I've seen.
If you're looking for a Baudelaire translation by a single author, this is a good one to buy.
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Title: Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library) by Arthur Rimbaud, Wyatt Mason ISBN: 0679642307 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 19 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics) by Charles Baudelaire, James McGowan ISBN: 0192835459 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Artificial Paradises: Baudelaire's Masterpiece on Hashish by Charles Baudelaire, Stacy Diamond ISBN: 0806514833 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Painters of Modern Life (Arts & Letters) by Charles Baudelaire ISBN: 0714833657 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 24 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Flowers of Evil and Other Works/Les Fleurs du Mal Et Oeuvres Choisies : A Dual-Language Book (Doverforeign Language Study Guides) by Charles Baudelaire ISBN: 0486270920 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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