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Title: The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems (New American Translations, No 7) by William H. Crosby, Charles P. Baudelaire, Anna Balakian ISBN: 0-918526-86-8 Publisher: Boa Editions, Ltd. Pub. Date: December, 1991 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: The Spirit of CB
Comment: Dr. Crosby has done the impossible. He has translated Baudelaire while somehow maintaining the sound, the music of the great man. For those seeking a word-for-word transliteration (for example the semi-literate Austin Kramer (see above)) look elsewhere. For those who wish to know the soul and sound of CB this is your book!!!

Rating: 2
Summary: Find another Translation!
Comment: I am a great admierer of the french symbolists, but not when translated by Mr. Crosby. According to the biographical information in the back of the book, Mr. Crosby is qualified to translate the works of Baudelaire because as a medical doctor, his area of experise is the spleen. His experiecne with french, he claimed, came mostly from 2 years of High School study. Theoreticaly this makes me more qualified than he is to translate the works of Baudelaire.

All this you can see in the great liberties he takes with the text, and the innacurate representations he puts forth in many cases.

Aparently, this is all just a hobby for him.

At any rate, I would recomend finding a scholarly translation if you are interested in the real voice of Baudelaire.