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Les Fleurs du mal ( French pronunciation: [le flœʁ dy mal]; English: The Flowers of Evil) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire . Les Fleurs du mal includes nearly all Baudelaire's poetry, written from 1840 until his death in August 1867. First published in 1857, it was important in the symbolist —including painting —and ...
Sung in French by Ezwa for LibriVox. " Chanson d'automne " ("Autumn Song") is a poem by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896), one of the best known in the French language. It is included in Verlaine's first collection, Poèmes saturniens, published in 1866 (see 1866 in poetry ). The poem forms part of the "Paysages tristes" ("Sad landscapes") section of ...
The " Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne " (English title: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster) is a poem in French composed by Voltaire as a response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. It is widely regarded as an introduction to Voltaire's 1759 acclaimed novel Candide and his view on the problem of evil. The 180-line poem was composed in December 1755 ...
Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules Valéry ( French: [pɔl valeʁi]; 30 October 1871 – 20 July 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. In addition to his poetry and fiction (drama and dialogues), his interests included aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Valéry was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature ...
The Swan (Baudelaire) Recording in French by Vincent Planchon for Audiocité. Le Cygne ( transl. The Swan) is a poem by Baudelaire published in the section " Tableaux Parisiens " ( transl. Parisian scenes) of Les Fleurs du mal ( transl. The Flowers of Evil ).
Henriade. La Henriade is an epic poem of 1723 written by the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire. According to Voltaire himself, the poem concerns and was written in honour of the life of Henry IV of France, and is a celebration of his life. [1] The ostensible subject is the siege of Paris in 1589 by Henry III in concert with ...
Its first English translation was published in March 1796, when William Taylor's rendering of the ballad, "Ellenore", appeared in the Monthly Magazine. [12] [13] The translation, however, was completed in 1790, and it had already been "declaimed, applauded and much discussed in Norwich literary circles". [14]
Blue flower. Centaurea cyanus, common in the native lands of Novalis. A blue flower ( German: Blaue Blume) was a central symbol of inspiration for the Romanticism movement, and remains an enduring motif in Western art today. [ 1] It stands for desire, love, and the metaphysical striving for the infinite and unreachable.