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
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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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
Last Update Oct 17, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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