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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil

Sacred and Profane Love

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What Is the Idea of a Baudelaire?

Baudelaire's genius is to bring you into a scene and recreate the scene where you can feel the scene. He doesn't tell you where to go, which is what modern poets loved. What Baudelaire does is basically insult his reader. And so you are just the contemptible, disgusting, you know, person,. You're worse than Satan in this because you control all these vices and you're hypocritical.

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