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

Sacred and Profane Love

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The Last Judgment

Young people really love sacred music. I mean, they're just so attracted to it. The depictions of the last judgment inevitably have sinners stripped naked. And we see the deformities that sin has given them. That's why Dante is the most influential poet on modern poetry because it's the most complete account of our existence.

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