The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire > Reviews

Advantages: originality
Disadvantages: denseness

...notorious collection was banned during the author’s lifetime and is a testament to pushing back the boundaries of poetry. “The Flowers of Evil” find beauty and a source of poetry in everything and anything, in addiction to morphine and in the arms of a prostitute. It is a desperately daring collection that must be read by anyone interested in European poetry or even poetry in general. Beaudelaire was a legend and a tyrant, he is not your standard ... Read review

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...Toward my star so pale, Under the mists of a vast canopy, I put out to sail; My chest heaves forward, my lungs fill like canvas in a gale, I scale the backs of waves that swell below the night's veil; I feel the tremble in me of all passions a vessel suffers through; A good wind, a storm and its convulsions, walls of endless blue Rock me. At other times, it's flat, calm and immense, a mirror Of my despair! A few words about me... My name’s ... Read review