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filth and art

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...This 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 ...

lewiscrofts 17.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire

The Flowers of Evil and the Infinite Music

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...like a sea! 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 trem ...

Mr_Farlock 07.09.2001 · Read full review
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Review of The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire