Selected Poems: Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire; Carol Clark (Editor, Translator, Introduction by, Notes by); Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

'I have sought forgetful sleep in love; but love is nothing but a mattress of needles'The poems of Charles Baudelaire are filled with explicit and unsettling imagery, depicting with intensity every day subjects ignored by French literary conventions of his time. 'Tableaux parisiens' portrays the brutal ...