I'm finding the translation lovely, marvelously balancing accuracy and rhyme--but there have been several great translations of Baudelaire, and you can't go wrong with any done before 1960 or so.
The poetry itself is a little bleh for me. Baudelaire seems so obsessed with glorifying squalidity, a neat gimmick, but he does very little else.
— May 16, 2023 09:10PM
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