Loneliness, temptation, the fragility of man in a soulless new age . . . The controversial, banned masterpiece from the nineteenth-century French poet. Sparking scandal in France, declared âan outrage to public moralsâ and âan offense to religious moralsâ by the Ministry of the Interior, The Flowers of Evil plunged Charles Baudelaire into a controversy that his public image never quite overcame. Nevertheless, the collection has since been lauded as a landmark in literary history and its writer extolled as the first modern poet. With themes of love, world-weariness, beauty, and death, The Flowers of Evil juxtaposes the sublime with the commonplace. In the section titled âParisian Scenesâ are some of Baudelaireâs greatest poemsââThe Swan,â âThe Little Old Women,â and âThe Seven Old Menââwhich give readers an unsentimental view of the City of Light and of a bleak urban existence. As the Wall Street Journal proclaimed, âThere is a sense in these angry, eructating late fragments of a man fully releasing himself to what he called âthe joy of downward descent.â And where Baudelaire went, modernity tended to follow.â âThe essence of a genius.â âThe Guardian âThe profound originality of Charles Baudelaire is to represent powerfully and essentially modern man.â âPaul Verlaine
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