Flowers of Evil (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Charles Baudelaire
- First Published: 1857
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: France or French people, Sex or sexuality, Nineteenth century, Flowers, Good and evil, Censorship, Devils or demons, Romanticism, Satan or Satanism, Boredom, Blasphemy
Critical Evaluation:
Flowers of Evil, Charles Baudelaire’s most famous work, is classical in its clarity, discipline, and form, yet Romantic in its subjectivity, spirit of revolt, and macabre elements. Baudelaire’s collection contains none of the historical or narrative poems typical of contemporaneous poetic works. The poems of Flowers of Evil were written at various dates, but their grouping and emotional tenor lend coherence and heighten intertextual relation. In the enlarged second edition, the book opens with “Benediction,” describing the poet’s...
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