Les Fleurs du Mal

Name: Les Fleurs du Mal
Author: Charles Baudelaire
ISBN: 9781787360556

Author: Charles Baudelaire
Language: French
Length: 126 pages
ISBN: 9781787360556
Published: 23 September 2019
Imprint: Sovereign

Charles Baudelaire
Poetry
Modernity
France
Paris
sensial
decadence
eroticism

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Description

Baudelaire's poetry, hugely popular before it was collected in The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), recognised as important poetical work reflecting on changing nature of beauty in Paris during rapid commercialisation and industrialisation cycle, and inspiring many generations of young poets.

Author

Charles Pierre Baudelaire was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, a book of lyric poetry titled Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil), expresses the changing nature of beauty in the rapidly industrialising Paris during the mid-19th century.

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