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

Sacred and Profane Love

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Baudelaire's Voyage

Baudelaire is simply a great poet, full of terrible ideas, but full of magnificent perceptions. How many truly world-changing poets have only one book? He ends the book on essentially a beatific vision. And then he has three poems purposely blasphemous: death, corruption and damnation. I think it's basically human redemption through the imagination," says Peter Stanyan.

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