Tyler’s Reviews > The Flowers of Evil > Status Update

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.