This man wrote of a figure whose "lucid essence flames with lightnings" as he tells God that "Of light drawn from the holy fount" will "all time and all space" braid him a mystic crown and that "pain is the only nobility." That figure, the Poet, appears in "Benediction" as well as a poem wherein he is compared to a "prince of the clouds" who pathetically lets his "great white wings" drag after sailors catch him. This man also created a character who "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe"; that figure is Ennu
This man wrote of a figure whose "lucid essence flames with lightnings" as he tells God that "Of light drawn from the holy fount" will "all time and all space" braid him a mystic crown and that "pain is the only nobility." That figure, the Poet, appears in "Benediction" as well as a poem wherein he is compared to a "prince of the clouds" who pathetically lets his "great white wings" drag after sailors catch him. This man also created a character who "dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe"; that figure is Ennui, who is known to the hypocrite twin. For 10 points, name this author of "The Albatross" and "To the Reader", poems in his Flowers of Evil.
This man wrote of a figure whose "lucid essence flames with lightnings" as he tells God that "Of light drawn from the holy fount" will "all time and all space" braid him a mystic crown and that "pain is the only nobility.
Charles {Baudelaire}