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Title: On the James McGowan translation (Baudelaire)
Review: I have picked up two other translations and have never been able to get past the first 20-30 pages. I picked up the McGowan translation and it changed my life. Someone french once told me that this translation is the closest to the original than any of the others out there. Each poem has it's own air to it--vivid, gothic, and in search of the flowers of evil or the beauty in "evil." In the past, I've never been too much of a fan of the stereotypical rhyme scheme type poetry but Baudelaire takes it to another level with his strange symbolist scenery and the emotions he puts me, the reader, through.A must read; my current favorite of all time.
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