Les Épaves

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Flotsam and New Flowers of Evil / Nouvelles Fleurs du mal (1866) ; Les Épaves (1866)
by Charles Baudelaire
“Nouvelles Fleurs du mal” was the title given to sixteen poems published in the anthology Le Parnasse contemporain in 1866. The title is more a matter of marketing than an indication of real continuity between these poems and the previous notorious collection; indeed, many of these pieces are earlier works that Baudelaire had decided not to include in Les Fleurs. "To a Lady of Malabar" is one of his earliest poems, originally composed in 1840 at the age of 19. Flotsam (Les Épaves) was a collection (published in Belgium to get around censorship) that included the poems that had been excluded from the 1861 edition of the Fleurs, some of the Nouvelles Fleurs, and ten further pieces which Baudelaire judged unsuited for his other collections.

Les Épaves / Flotsam [edit]


Nouvelles Fleurs du mal / The New Flowers of Evil [edit]