Synopses & Reviews
The raw beauty of Baudelaires poetry finds a new impact in the evocative power of the drawings that accompany the verses: watercolors, Indian ink, pastels, and other different techniques that translate words and rhymes.
La belleza de la poesía de Baudelaire adquiere un nuevo impacto con el poder evocativo de los dibujos que la acompañan: acuarelas, tinta india, pasteles y otras técnicas diferentes que traducen palabras y rimas.
Review
"Baudelaire is the best example of modern poetry in any language." T. S. Eliot
Synopsis
The raw beauty of Baudelaire’s poetry finds a new impact in the evocative power of the drawings that accompany the verses: watercolors, Indian ink, pastels, different techniques that translate words and rhymes, the concepts and the everyday, love and hate, pleasure and spleen, angels and demons. It is illustrated by the Belgian Louis Joos.
About the Author
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. Louis Joos is a Belgian illustrator. Claude Dubois is a translator.