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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 Poetry - Six Things That Changed the History of Poetry

By all objective measures, Baudelaire's promising life was a complete failure. That being said, by the end of his life, other poets, both in, in England and France, discover him. He becomes then the motivating force of the most influential poetic movement. It spills over into fiction and into painting as well of the late 19th century symbolism. All art aspires to the conditions of music is one of the phrases they're using on this.

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