*Les Fleurs du Mal * was one of the most infamous books of poems in French literature but has since been recognized for the beauty of its expression, insight into feelings, and absence of hypocrisy. These new English verse translations, with parallel French texts, are designed to be read with pleasu...

*Les Fleurs du Mal * was one of the most infamous books of poems in French literature but has since been recognized for the beauty of its expression, insight into feelings, and absence of hypocrisy. These new English verse translations, with parallel French texts, are designed to be read with pleasure by readers who have no French experience as well as those practiced in the French language.