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

Sacred and Profane Love

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Is Baudelaire the Cursed Poet?

Baudelaire was an atheist when he wrote the Flowers of Evil. The more you got into it, "the darker it was getting," says Frida Ghitis. Baudelaire thinks of poetry as enchantment or as casting a spell on one hand, but also aimed at beauty and that beauty heightens our perception so we can experience reality in a new way.Ghitis: Most important issue for Catholics is restoration of beauty.

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