Nevertheless, the collection has since been lauded as a landmark in literary history and its writer extolled as the first modern poet.

His poetry is influenced by the French romantic poets of the earlier 19th century, although its attention to the formal features of verse connect it more closely to the work of the contemporary 'Parnassians'.

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Baudelaire's exploration of beauty, decadence, and the meaning of existence will challenge and inspire you, making this collection a must-read for anyone interested in the evolution of literary forms and expressions.

This special ebook edition of Baudelaire's writings on hashish and alcohol contains both "On Wine And Hashish”and "The Poem Of Hashish”, plus the bonus text "Get Drunk”, a prose-poetic exhortation to perpetual inebriation.

Deeply though darkly spiritual, titanic in the changes he wrought, Baudelaire looms over all the work, great and small, created in his wake.