L'Oeuvre Poètique de Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
"L'Oeuvre Poètique de Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal" by Charles Baudelaire is a poetry collection published in 1857. This scandalous work brought together nearly all of Baudelaire's verse written from 1840 until his death. The collection sparked outrage in French society, leading to a sensational trial and the censorship of six poems deemed immoral. Exploring themes of suffering, sin, death, and the yearning for an ideal world, Baudelaire created a methodically
arranged work that juxtaposes human emotion with stark reality and ineffable beauty. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 |
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| Commentator | Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 |
| Title | L'Oeuvre Poètique de Charles Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du Mal |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal |
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Produced by Laura Natal Rodrigues at Free Literature (Images generously made available by Bodleian Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 74.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | French poetry -- 19th century |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 61565 |
| Release Date | Mar 5, 2020 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 17, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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