Charles Baudelaire

Les Fleurs du mal is de belangrijkste dichtbundel van de Franse dichter Charles Baudelaire. Baudelaire begon in 1843 aan Les Fleurs du mal. De eerste uitgave dateert uit 1857 en de laatste waaraan de dichter zelf heeft gewerkt uit 1861.

Between 1855 and his death in 1867, Charles Baudelaire inaugurated a new—and in his own words “dangerous”—hybrid form in a series of prose poems known as Paris Spleen. Important and provocative, these fifty poems take the reader on a tour of 1850s Paris, through gleaming cafes and filthy side streets, revealing a …

Les Paradis Artificiels is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish. Baudelaire describes the effects of the drugs and discusses the way in which they could theoretically aid mankind in reaching an "ideal" world. The text was …