The title character, a "captive king," is mocked because its "giant wings keep them from walking" in his "The Albatross."
In one of this author's works, the speaker asserts that "one must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance." Another of his works sees the speaker attack the title character for having "no coloured glasses." In addition to "Intoxication" and "The Glass-Vendor," he described how "Languorous Asia and burning Africa, / A whole world, distant, absent, almost exist" in the title object of "The Head of Hair." The title character, a "captive king," is mocked because its "giant wings keep them from walking" in his "The Albatross." He opened another work asserting "folly and error...possess our spirits," after which he compares himself to the "hypocrite reader." For 10 points, name this man who wrote the Prose Poems, the French author of The Flowers of Evil.
In one of this author's works, the speaker asserts that "one must be for ever drunken: that is the sole question of importance."
Charles Baudelaire