" FTP identify this poetry collection published in 1857, a work by Charles Baudelaire.
Eliot quotes "Seven Old Men" in "The Wasteland;" and its "The Mask" is dedicated to Ernest Christophe, while "The Swan" is for Victor Hugo. Other animal subjects include the albatross and "Cats" who the speaker calls "friends of science and ecstasy." Though "A Voyage to Cythera" opens in a pastoral manner its topic quickly becomes a decomposing body. Usually divided into sections with titles roughly translating as "Parisian Landscapes," "Wine, Death, and Revolt," it begins with the part "Spleen and Ideal," yet its most famous line comes from the preface and declares that the reader is both "a hypocrite and a brother." FTP identify this poetry collection published in 1857, a work by Charles Baudelaire.
Eliot quotes "Seven Old Men" in "The Wasteland;" and its "The Mask" is dedicated to Ernest Christophe, while "The Swan" is for Victor Hugo.
Les Fleurs du Mal or Flowers of Evil