First appearing in 1857, FTP, name this collection whose preface addresses a "hypocrite reader," the best-known work of Charles Baudelaire.
The "aesthetic dignity" of this work is the subject of the final essay in Erich Auerbach's Scenes from the Drama of European Literature. That essay refers to the "gray misery" of a poem in which the author speaks of his soul as a "hateful cloister" in which he paces for all eternity like a "miserable monk." Its first edition ended with a poem that mentions accursed sculptors who only hope that death will make their creations blossom; that edition was divided into five sections, including "Wine," "Revolt," and "Spleen and Ideal." First appearing in 1857, FTP, name this collection whose preface addresses a "hypocrite reader," the best-known work of Charles Baudelaire.
The "aesthetic dignity" of this work is the subject of the final essay in Erich Auerbach's Scenes from the Drama of European Literature.
The {Flowers of Evil} or Les {Fleurs du Mal}