The Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire · 1857 CE · Poem · French · Victorian

Poems on Paris, boredom, beauty, hashish, the crowd and the corpse, arranged as a movement from spleen toward whatever ideal survives it. Baudelaire's city is the first modern one in verse: gaslit, indifferent, and full of strangers worth writing down. Prosecuted for obscenity, and quoted by modern lyric ever since.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ The Tell-Tale Heart
  Edgar Allan Poe · 1843 CE · Short Story
• ↓ New Poems
  Rainer Maria Rilke · 1907 CE · Poem — influenced by this
• ↓ The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
  Rainer Maria Rilke · 1910 CE · Novel — alludes to this
• ↓ Poèmes saturniens
  Paul Verlaine · 1866 CE · Poem — influenced by this

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  48% · 8 shared
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• Contemplations
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  46% · 10 shared
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• The Gulf
  Derek Walcott · 1969 CE · Poem

  44% · 9 shared
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• Praise the High Shadow
  Mahmoud Darwish · 1983 CE · Poem

  44% · 9 shared
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