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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 insights of pain and vision in art

Artists with deep pain and vision have insights into the world that ordinary people cannot possibly have. Their redefinition of beauty is deeply Catholic, stating that everything seen from the proper perspective is beautiful. These insights have contributed to modernism in literature, visual arts, and music, shaping the template for artists like Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman.

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